Understanding brief, detail, extensive, and terse Options of JUNOS Operational Commands

The JUNOS operational mode commands can include brief, detail, extensive, or terse options. You can use these options to control the amount of information you want to view.

1. Use the ? prompt to list options available for the command. For example:
   user@host> show interfaces fe-1/1/1 ?

   Possible completions:
   <[Enter]>            Execute this command
     brief              Display brief output
     descriptions       Display interface description strings
     detail             Display detailed output
     extensive          Display extensive output
     media              Display media information
     snmp-index         SNMP index of interface
     statistics         Display statistics and detailed output
     terse              Display terse output
     |                  Pipe through a command
   

2. Choose the option you wish to use with the command. (See Figure 6.)

Figure 6: Command Output Options

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