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Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by James Boney
August 2005
Intermediate to advanced
798 pages
31h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

escape-character — line

Synopsis

escape-character ascii-number
no escape-character

Configures

The system escape character

Default

Ctrl-^

Description

This command defines the character that terminates a running command. The default, as specified in the hot-key listing, is Ctrl-^ (Control+Shift+6 on most keyboards). ascii-number must be the decimal value of the character you want to use. The Break key cannot be used as an escape character.

The no form of the instruction returns the escape character to the default.

Example

The following commands set the disconnect character to Ctrl-C, which has a decimal value of 3:

Router(config)# line 2
Router(config-line)# escape-characer 3
Router(config-line)# vacant-message #
Router(config-line)#               ***** Welcome to Sphinx *****
Router(config-line)#            Escape key is Ctrl-C
Router(config-line)# #
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