Change pagination option without configuration change

[Fern-X]

Hello. On a Fortigate, is there a (CLI) command to change printout output from 'more' to 'standard' without a configuration change? Perhaps lurking as an option in some diagnose command? R's, Fern

[Shilpa1]

Hello Fern-X,

Could you please refer to the document link below and let us know if it is helpful?

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-show-the-command-output-without-mor...

Regards,
Shilpa C.P

[Fern-X]

Thank you - I appreciate every reply... but.. can you reread the question - especially, the italics part? (Perhaps it should have been italics and bold and underlined.)

[pgautam]

Hi @Fern-X 

Thank you for posting your query.

In FortiGate to display the "terminal length 0" like output we have the option to change the configuration from more to standard.

I understand that you are looking for a command in which configuration change is not required, however in Fortigate above setting is a permanent config setting, not a temporary setting for the current session like 'ter len 0'. 

Regards
Priyanka

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[Fern-X]

Again, I am not looking for a permanent config setting nor the solution you hyperlinked to. I am asking "is there a (CLI) command to change printout output from 'more' to 'standard' without a configuration change? Perhaps lurking as an option in some diagnose command?"

Are you implying that there definitely none such or that you don't know what it may be?

[pgautam]

Hi @Fern-X 

Thank you for your reply.

In Fortigate we have only standard and more config options to change the pagination.

Regards
Priyanka

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[Fern-X]

Hi Priyanka, thank you. Since you’re “Staff”, perchance you can request developers to implement it? I’ll guesstimate, less than 15 minutes of programming. R's, Fern

[ggiesen]

@pgautam, @Shilpa1;

I too would love to see a "(CLI) command to change printout output from 'more' to 'standard' without a configuration change"
We ran into an issue with RANCiD (we use it for device configuration backups) where every Fortinet device would reboot every night, because we had "cfg-save revert" set on our devices, and rancid disabling pagination would trigger a configuration change that would cause the device to reboot when the change wasn't confirmed.

Details here:
https://shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2025-February/011409.html

[realvitya]

Hi! Not a command, but a hack:
Run your command and run it through grep. Example for configuration:
show | grep ""
Grep doesn't use pagination! Just found out because we had the same problem being RO user on the CLI.

[Fern-X]

Hi! Wow - thanks! Seemingly, Fortinet("Grep doesn't use pagination!") bug can be useful.