19 Mar
2025
19 Mar
'25
8:57 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 08:43 Måns Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org> wrote:
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.
I was referring moreso to the listing of context-valid subcommands/arguments, not so much the completion of the commands themselves, but noted! That convention's becoming more commonplace in Linux as well; notably the ipeoute2 suite's commands.