When you are working on your CCNA or even CCNP for that matter, you find yourself saving the config all the time. The one thing that always annoyed me is how the pause will create additional characters and text in your saved file. If you are like me, you get tired of hitting the space bar all the time to continue the configuration. I learned this command when I first started my CCNA, then I forgot it. I knew it existed, but for some reason Googling never turned up what I was looking for.

Here is how you show a cisco configuration without pausing.

enable#terminal length 0

or the shortest way to type it.

enable#ter le 0

Now you can do a sh run and the config will scroll by until it gets to the end. To set the pause back up, you issue the command with the number of lines you would like to show before pausing.

enable#term len 100

I’m all for shortcuts, but in this case, I’ve found I remember the command better if it sounds like a word or phrase. So, I use term len for my shortcut. If you want to be really effecient, use ter le.

One note about this command. When you log off, it resets. You will have to do it again the next time you log back in.