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What are the benefits of typing "?" after each parameter in Cisco IOS commands ?

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Question ajoutée par Khaled Omar , Senior Service Delivery Engineer , Dell Technologies
Date de publication: 2014/06/01
Shahin Syed
par Shahin Syed , IT Administrator, Training Officer , Al-Hamad Enterprises

"?" is a help feature which makes Cisco IOS a rich CLI Operating System. So even without knowing the full syntax of a particular command, anyone can figure out the right commands using this help feature.

Muhammad Iqbal
par Muhammad Iqbal , IT Officer System Administrator , COMSTECH

Although all of above answers are somehow correct. Elaborated further, on any command you can have two kinda help. (i) Detailed help via 'help' keyword while putting it before command and (ii) via putting '?' character which is used only to get command syntax. However, if we enter a '?' after a menu command it behaves like a tab key and provide commands list that a available

Binyam Gessesse
par Binyam Gessesse , Project manager/Network Administrator , eCloud ICT Plc

It  will give you the rest of the options to finish the command. 

SOUVIK SEN
par SOUVIK SEN , SOFTWARE SUPPORT PERSONNEL , DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING, GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL

help to complete a command in case u forgot.... "?" shows what are probable parameter can execute with after given parameter... 

Asim Ali
par Asim Ali , SAP HCM Support Officer , Al Tilal Steel Company Limited

in Cisco ios, command-line interface(CLi) a brilliant feature has been in the form of '?' which is a symbol of help is needed, anyways, it shows the next available parameters you can choose from but there is a catch, only a know syntax can be executed otherwise an invalid command prompt will be shown.

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