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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Using the Command-Line Interface
Command Output Paging
Replace
regexp
with any Cisco IOS regular expression. The regular expression is not enclosed in quotes or
double-quotes, so be careful with trailing white spaces, which will be taken as part of the regular
expression.
When creating regular expressions, you can use any letter or number that you want to match. In addition,
certain keyboard characters called
metacharacters
have special meaning when used in regular
expressions.
Use
Ctrl+V
to escape all of the special characters in the CLI, such as a question mark (?) or a tab. For
example, type
d[Ctrl+V]?g
to enter
d?g
in the configuration.
For a list of metacharacters, see
Command Output Paging
For commands such as
help
or
?
,
show
,
show xlate
, or other commands that provide long listings, you
can determine if the information displays a screen and pauses, or lets the command run to completion.
The
pager
command lets you choose the number of lines to display before the More prompt appears.
When paging is enabled, the following prompt appears:
<--- More --->
The More prompt uses syntax similar to the UNIX
more
command:
•
To view another screen, press the
Space
bar.
•
To view the next line, press the
Enter
key.
•
To return to the command line, press the
q
key.
Adding Comments
You can precede a line with a colon ( : ) to create a comment. However, the comment only appears in the
command history buffer and not in the configuration. Therefore, you can view the comment with the
show history
command or by pressing an arrow key to retrieve a previous command, but because the
comment is not in the configuration, the
write terminal
command does not display it.
Text Configuration Files
This section describes how to format a text configuration file that you can download to the ASA, and
includes the following topics:
•
How Commands Correspond with Lines in the Text File, page 1-6
•
Command-Specific Configuration Mode Commands, page 1-6
•
Automatic Text Entries, page 1-7
•
•
Commands Not Included in the Text Configuration, page 1-7
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Summary of Contents for 5505 - ASA Firewall Edition Bundle
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Page 61: ...P A R T 1 Getting Started with the ASA ...
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Page 403: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Interfaces ...
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Page 533: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Objects and Access Lists ...
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Page 1061: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Service Policies Using the Modular Policy Framework ...
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Page 1093: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Application Inspection ...
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Page 1965: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Logging SNMP and Smart Call Home ...
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