Using CLI Command Completion

To complete the show interfaces command, do the following:

user@host> show in<Spacebar>terfaces <Enter>

Physical interface: at-0/1/0, Enabled, Physical link is Up

  Interface index: 11, SNMP ifIndex: 65

  Link-level type: ATM-PVC, MTU: 4482, Clocking: Internal, SONET mode

  Speed: OC12, Loopback: None, Payload scrambler: Enabled

  Device flags   : Present Running

  Link flags     : 0x01

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To display a list of all log files whose names start with the string "messages," and then display the contents of one of the files, do the following:

user@host> show log mes?

Possible completions:

  <filename>                                Log file to display

  messages                                Size: 1417052, Last changed: Mar  3 00:33

  messages.0.gz                                Size: 145575, Last changed: Mar  3 00:00

  messages.1.gz                                Size: 134253, Last changed: Mar  2 23:00

  messages.10.gz                                Size: 137022, Last changed: Mar  2 14:00

  messages.2.gr                                Size: 137112, Last changed: Mar  2 22:00

  messages.3.gz                                Size: 121633, Last changed: Mar  2 21:00

  messages.4.gz                                Size: 135715, Last changed: Mar  2 20:00

  messages.5.gz                                Size: 137504, Last changed: Mar  2 19:00

  messages.6.gz                                Size: 134591, Last changed: Mar  2 18:00

  messages.7.gz                                Size: 132670, Last changed: Mar  2 17:00

  messages.8.gz                                Size: 136596, Last changed: Mar  2 16:00

  messages.9.gz                                Size: 136210, Last changed: Mar  2 15:00

user@host> show log mes<Tab>sages.4<Tab>.gz<Enter>

Jan 15 21:00:00 myhost newsyslog[1381]: logfile turned over

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