Searching for something?

Everybody knows how to use the include|begin|exclude search operators (I hope so at least), but you can also search through screen output with the “/” operator. You can use this with most ‘SHOW’ commands provided the output is more than one page long.

It is very useful to see a specific search string bound to show up multiple times from the SHOW command.

Example:  Show the running-config, and one the first page break, hit the forward slash “/”. Now enter the string you looking for:
slash

Hit enter to jump to the first match:
slash2

This can be repeated a second,  third and fourth time etc, by just hitting forward slash and no search criteria.
/ <ENTER>

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