Ccna routing and Switching Complete Study Guide

Editing and Help Features

The Cisco advanced editing features can also help you configure your router. If you type in 

a question mark (

?

) at any prompt, you’ll be given a list of all the commands available from 

that prompt:

Switch#

?

Exec commands:

  access-enable    Create a temporary Access-List entry

  access-template  Create a temporary Access-List entry

  archive          manage archive files

  cd               Change current directory

  clear            Reset functions

  clock            Manage the system clock

  cns              CNS agents

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  Cisco’s Internetworking Operating System (IOS)

  configure        Enter configuration mode

  connect          Open a terminal connection

  copy             Copy from one file to another

  debug            Debugging functions (see also 'undebug')

  delete           Delete a file

  diagnostic       Diagnostic commands

  dir              List files on a filesystem

  disable          Turn off privileged commands

  disconnect       Disconnect an existing network connection

  dot1x            IEEE 802.1X Exec Commands

  enable           Turn on privileged commands

  eou              EAPoUDP

  erase            Erase a filesystem

  exit             Exit from the EXEC

 ––More–– 

?

Press RETURN for another line, SPACE for another page, anything else to quit

And if this is not enough information for you, you can press the spacebar to get another 

whole page of information, or you can press Enter to go one command at a time. You can also 

press Q, or any other key for that matter, to quit and return to the prompt. Notice that I typed a 

question mark (?) at the 

more

 prompt and it told me what my options were from that prompt.

Here’s a shortcut: To find commands that start with a certain letter, use the letter and 

the question mark with no space between them, like this:

Switch#