Cisco iOS Basics: Shortcuts

You’ll be lot faster and efficient with Cisco iOS commands If you know a few shortcuts.

Ctrl+P or Up arrow –  Previous command
Ctrl+N or Down arrow – Next command
show history – Shows last 10 commands entered by default
show terminal  – Shows terminal configurations and history buffer size
terminal history size  – Changes buffer size (the maximum is 256)
Ctrl+A – Move cursor to the beginning of the line
Ctrl+E  – Move cursor to the end of the line
Esc+B  – Move back one word
Ctrl+B  – Move back cursor
Ctrl+F  – Move forward cursor
Esc+F  – Move forward one word
Ctrl+D (or Backspace)  – Deletes a single character
Esc+D – Delete from Cursor to end of word
Ctrl+R  – Redisplays a line
Ctrl+U  – Erases a line
Ctrl+W  – Erases a word
Ctrl+Z  – Ends configuration mode and returns to EXEC mode
Ctrl+C – Exit Config mode
Tab     – Finishes typing a command
Router#?  – Shows all available commands in current mode
Router#t?  – Shows all available commands beginning with the letter t
Router#telnet ?  – Shows all available options for the telnet command

 

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