3 using shortcuts and getting help, 2 saving changes – ZyXEL Communications MES-2110 User Manual

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Chapter 23 Command Line Interface

MES-2110 User’s Guide

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23.1.3 Using Shortcuts and Getting Help

This table identifies some shortcuts in the CLI, as well as how to get help.

23.2 Saving Changes

In the MES-2110, whenever you make changes using the command line interface
they are not saved by default.

To save your changes, you must use the following commands starting in Basic
command mode (for details on this mode, see

Section 23.5 on page 182

):

Table 74 CLI Shortcuts and Help

COMMAND / KEY(S)

DESCRIPTION

yz

(up/down arrow keys)

Scrolls through the list of recently-used commands. You
can edit any command or press [ENTER] to run it again.

[CTRL]+U

Clears the current command.

?

Displays the keywords and/or input values that are
allowed in place of the ?.

There are 2 types of help in the MES-2110: descriptive
and parameter.

Descriptive help: This type of help displays a short
description of the command.

To display descriptive help, simply type

command?

with

no space between the command’s final letter and the
question mark.

Parameter help: This type of help displays all available
parameters for the command in question.

To display parameter help, type

command ?

with a space

between the command’s final letter and the question
mark. In some cases, commands do not have any
parameters and typing this results in the command being
carried out.

help

Displays the (full) commands that are allowed in place of
help

.

MES-2110> enable

MES-2110# write memory

It takes a few moments to write memory...

MES-2110#

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