Filter Show Command Output Using the Pipe “|”

There are four filtering parameters that can be configured after the pipe:

• section - Shows the entire section that starts with the filtering expression
• include - Includes all output lines that match the filtering expression
• exclude - Excludes all output lines that match the filtering expression
• begin - Shows all the output lines from the point matching the filtering expression

Sometimes the output you want is a subset of the output a command will return, in order to reduce the amount of data you get back you can use the pipe command to filter the response to the command

Name# show command | filter expression

The Pipe is a <shift> “\” on your keyboard

Linux / Unix Functionality