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C Using the Command Line
Interface
Shell commands
The CLI supports a few shell commands that allow you to perform various search, cut, and paste
operations. The following shell commands can be used:
• Ctrl-C – clears the prompt.
• Ctrl-R – allows you to search backward through the command history.
• Ctrl-K – deletes the text from the cursor to the end of the line
• Ctrl-U – erases the entire line
• Ctrl-Y – pastes text erased by Ctrl-K or Ctrl-U
• Ctrl-P – moves backwards through the history.
Command Line Interface syntax
In general, the Command Line Interface separates input into separate arguments by using spaces as
delimiters. Thus, the command
cert request newcertrequest
is treated as three separate arguments:
• cert
• request
• newcertrequest
Quoting arguments
You can include spaces in an argument by quoting the argument. Placing quotes around a string causes
it to be treated as one argument. Thus, the command
cert request “new cert request”
is treated as three separate arguments:
• cert
• request
• new cert request
Single quotes (‘) and double quotes (“) are treated identically and can be used interchangeably. As
such, the command
new request ‘new cert request”
is treated as three separate arguments:
• cert
• request
• new cert request
If there are no spaces between segments of quoted and non–quoted text, the two segments are treated
as one argument. Thus, the command
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