PIPE Feature & Commands in Cisco IOS

Network administrators working on Cisco devices have to search through a lot of detailed information when they run IOS commands. This is when the “PIPE” function of Cisco IOS comes as a pretty helpful utility.

Let’s see what are the options we get after inputting PIPE “|” function.

R1#sh run | ?

We will use above options under PIPE to have more understanding on their usage

In below scenario , the command using PIPE will provide output of interfaces which are down –

Switch#show ip interface brief | include down

Below is output after issuing “show running-config | section bgp” command which displays only BGP section of the running configuration –

Router#show running-config | section bgp

Next, with command “show run | begin interface” ,the output starts from the first occurence of the word “interface”.

Router#show run | begin interface

Further , below are some more examples where PIPE function is used –

Hope you would have understood this cisco pipe commands cheat sheet.

Read some other related articles –

>Cisco Device Interface Description – Command & Configuration

> Cisco Datasheets 

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