H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches - Manual (Page 18)

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Key Function
Right arrow key or Ctrl+F The cursor moves one character space to the right.
Tab
If you press Tab after entering part of a keyword, the system automatically
completes the keyword:
z If finding a unique match, the system substitutes the complete keyword
for the incomplete one and displays it in the next line.
z If there is more than one match, you can press Tab repeatedly to display
in cycles all the keywords starting with the character string that you
typed.
z If there is no match, the system does not modify the incomplete keyword
and displays it again in the next line.
Typing Incomplete Keywords
You can input a command comprising incomplete keywords that can uniquely identify the complete
command.
For example, in user view, commands starting with an s include startup saved-configuration and
system-view.
z To enter system view, type sy.
z To set the configuration file for next startup, type st s.
You can also press Tab to have an incomplete keyword automatically completed.
Configuring Command Aliases
The command alias function allows you to replace the first keyword of a command with your preferred
keyword. For example, if you configure show as the replacement of the display keyword for each
display command, to execute the display xx command, input the command alias show xx.
Note the following when configuring command aliases:
z When you input a command alias, the system displays and saves the command in its original
format instead of its alias. In other words, you can define and use a command alias but the
command is not restored in its alias format.
z When you define a command alias, the cmdkey and alias arguments must be in their complete
form.
z With the command alias function enabled, when you input an incomplete keyword, which partially
matches both a defined alias and the keyword of a command, the alias wins; to execute the
command whose keyword partially matches your input, input the complete keyword. When you
input a character string that partially matches multiple aliases, the system gives you prompts.
z If you press Tab after you input the keyword of an alias, the original format of the keyword is
displayed.
z You can replace only the first keyword of a non-undo command instead of the complete command;
and you can replace only the second keyword of undo commands.
Follow these steps to configure command aliases: