Imagine a common scenario where we need to log into the network device and make sure all the interfaces on the devices are in an up/up state (both the status and the protocol are showing as up). For the human network engineers getting into a Cisco NX-OS device, it is simple enough to issue the show IP interface brief command in the Terminal to easily tell from the output which interface is up:
nx-osv-2# show ip int brief IP Interface Status for VRF "default"(1) Interface IP Address Interface Status Lo0 192.168.0.2 protocol-up/link-up/admin-up Eth2/1 10.0.0.6 protocol-up/link-up/admin-up nx-osv-2#
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