I know it’s a mouthful that doesn’t seem to make sense. But that is what Cisco calls it, and what it is similar to the | (pipe) you are probably familiar with. I was not until recently aware of these commands.

With the pipe you have include, exclude and begin and have to enter them before you run the show command. You have similar options after running the show command, using +, -, and / respectively. After issuing your “show” command, using the ‘/’ it allows you to find the next occurrence of a string and everything after that.… Read more

For the last decade I have been launching my putty from a simple windows+r. I have done so well over 20,000 times in the last 7 years alone, (don’t ask how I know that.) You might remember this feature being depicted in on EtherealMind’s blog post, though I rarely see other net-eng or linux types using this feature. To build on that same topic, there have been three things that I have been doing. The first is integrating within a simple batch file, and the second is integrating tabbed putty via SuperPutty, and finally setting up logging of all my terminal activity.… Read more