Configuring Help Text for Op Scripts
You can provide help text to describe an op script and its arguments when the ? is used to list possible completions in the CLI. Include the description statement:
- description descriptive-text;
You can include this statement at the following hierarchy levels:
- [edit system scripts op file filename]
- [edit system scripts op file filename arguments argument-name]
The following examples show the configuration and the resulting output.
Examples: Configuring Help Text for Op Scripts
Configure help text for a script and display the resulting output:
- [edit system scripts op]
- user@host# set file interface.xsl description
"Test the interface"
- user@host# commit
- ...
- [edit system scripts op]
- user@host# set file ?
- Possible completions:
- <name> Local
filename of the script file
- interface.xsl Test
the interface
Configure help text for a script’s arguments and display the resulting output:
- [edit system scripts op file interface.xsl arguments]
- user@host# set t1 description "Search for
T1 interfaces"
- user@host# set t3 description "Search for
T3 interfaces"
- user@host# commit
- ...
- [edit system scripts op file interface.xsl arguments]
- user@host# set ?
- Possible completions:
- <name> Name
of the argument
- t1 Search
for T1 interfaces
- t3 Search
for T3 interfaces

