terminal

Description

Use the terminal command to set terminal parameters.

Syntax

terminal length <number of lines>

terminal type <terminal type>
no terminal type

terminal width <number of characters>

Arguments

terminal length <number of lines>	Sets the number of lines for this terminal.
terminal type <terminal type>	Sets the terminal type. The options are xterm, ansi, and vt100. Use the no form of the command to clear the terminal type.
terminal width <number of characters>	Sets the number of maximum number of characters in a line (row) for this terminal.

Defaults

The default terminal length is 24 rows.

The default terminal width is 80 characters.

The default terminal type is xterm.

Command Mode

User EXEC Mode

Privileged EXEC Mode

Global Configuration Mode

See Also

See “show terminal”.

Usage Guidelines

None.

Examples

To set the line width to 120 characters for this terminal:

(config) # terminal width 120

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