Please Cisco IOS, no --More--

Just a quick Cisco IOS tip.

Cisco has a feature built into their software that when displaying the results of a command, it will only show one screen of text at a time by presenting a --More-- line at the bottom of the text giving the tech time to view the output of the command in small, bite-sized pieces.

However, sometimes you (I) just need to dump the output to a text file and having to hit the spacebar to advance the output can get annoying. The solution is to run the following command right after logging in.

terminal length 0

This will force the Cisco IOS to dump the entire output without pausing, or as I like to put it, no more --More--.