Keystroke Shortcuts and Manipulating History

ICND1 and ICND2 break down

In Cisco IOS software Review, we have come across keystroke shortcuts and command history.
Here lets recap what we have learned.
The CCNA certification requires:

Use keystroke:

• <Ctrl> + P or up arrow to show the previous command.


• <Ctrl> + N or down arrow to show the next command.


• <Ctrl> + B or left arrow to move the cursor back one character


• <Ctrl> + F or right arrow to move the cursor forward one character


• <Ctrl> + A moves the cursor to the beginning of the command line


• <Ctrl> + E moves the cursor to the end of the command line


• <ESC> + B moves the cursor back one word


• <ESC> + F moves the cursor forward one word

Use the following commands under privileged mode to manage command history:

• terminal history to turn on the command history


• terminal no history to turn off the command history


• terminal history size 50 to set the size of the history buffer


• show history to show all commands in the history

CCENT have a tight testing schedule, so you want to save as much time as you can with keystroke shortcuts. Here are more time saving tips.