Using the gateway CLI
The gateway CLI uses navigational and functional commands that are familiar to users who configure network and servers products. The industry-standard techniques include:
- Tab completion (also called command abbreviation or auto-complete)
- "?" to display the possible next inputs (also called context-sensitive help)
- "help" and "?" to display the help strings and/or to see the lists of commands available at each level, history recall (as in UNIX)
- “set” commands for configuring the gateway
- Command-line editing features (with Emacs-like keybinders provided by the readline library)
- For output, using curly braces as delimiters
The only exceptions to these standard techniques are the following gateway CLI commands:
- “delete” for removing an element (rather than using “no”)
- “insert” for configuring multiple elements in a command-line
The following tables describe the history recall features and the command-line editing features.
| Input | History recall function |
|---|---|
Ctrl-p or up-arrow | recall the previous command(s) |
Ctrl-n or down-arrow | recall the next command(s) |
Input | Editing function |
|---|---|
Ctrl-a | places cursor at start of line |
| Ctrl-c | interrupts current command and returns to top-level prompt |
Ctrl-e | end of the line |
Ctrl-b or left-arrow | back one character |
Ctrl-f or right-arrow | forward one character |
Ctrl-d | delete a single character |
Ctrl-l | redraws the screen |
Ctrl-u | undo (erase) current line, cursor moved to start of line |
Ctrl-w | erase word to the left of the cursor |