Panic At The Cisco Tech, Thanks To Ancient Ios Syntax Helper That Outsmarted Itself
The Register, Monday, December 9th, 2024
This week's hero is a network tech whom we will Regomize as "Sherlock." Back in the 1990s he was working as an IT manager for a business that had a number of regional hubs, each linked to HQ over a 128K link. Smaller regional offices were linked to their hubs with 64K connections.
Cisco knows that netadmins are a busy lot, and one feature of the command line for its IOS is an autocomplete that means typing some characters of a command followed by the TAB key offers tells the OS to complete whatever syntax you're typing.
Typing sh-TAB can therefore be a shortcut to the command show, thus saving two whole keystrokes and valuable microseconds for greater productivity.