' begin' output filter in FortiOS?

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June 21, 2012
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Hi, having hard time finding the FortiOS equivalent for Cisco' s: show [...] | begin [...] Please advise. Thank you.

ede_pfau

SuperUser

Not sure what the ' begin' command does but I guess it' s like ' head' in UNIX. There' s not direct equivalent for this. Use ' | grep' to filter output (note the spaces around the pipe symbol) and the implicit command line ' more' feature:

 conf sys console     set output more  end

The number of lines displayed depends on the screen size. HTH.

RafalSAuthor

New Member

Thank you. Sorry for having coded my question in IOS syntax. Of course, I considered grep before posting. What I mean is a filter in CLI that will let me list a config beginning a specific expression. Per analogy to IOS, based on the full show command output: CLS#show run Building configuration... Current configuration : 30440 bytes ! ! Last configuration change at 18:05:32 CEST Tue Jun 19 2012 by whatever ! NVRAM config last updated at 20:18:38 CEST Fri Jun 1 2012 by whatever ! version 12.2 no service pad service timestamps debug datetime msec localtime service timestamps log datetime msec localtime no service password-encryption service compress-config ! [...and so on...] Same config output starting from the line where ' password' is found: CLS#show run | begin password no service password-encryption service compress-config ! [...and so on...] Is grep able to provide that?

ede_pfau

SuperUser

No, I don' t think so. grep is grep. One workaround would be to download the config and use an editor. Not elegant but better than grep alone with a long config.