[NANOG] Re: The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed?

Subject: [NANOG] Re: The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed? Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 08:36:00AM -0400 Quoting brent saner via NANOG (nanog@lists.nanog.org):

*NIX sysops (not netops) lurker here.

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Y'all's Tab keycaps must be worn through.

As a rest from things before Unix, we also have something the Unixen don't do, we have a minimum length parser. As seen in amon others OpenVMS. Syntax becomes: $ sh int te 0/0/0/1 tran det (for "show interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/0/0/1 transceiver details") You don't need to tab. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE SA0XLR +46 705 989668 I'm rated PG-34!!