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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / r.china venkanna babu

#ok sifting <part of command>

For Example

#ok sifting probe

output: probe scsi -all
probe ide
probe scsi

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / chris lowder

The command is sifting <search string>

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / ramanji

sifting <part of command>

then it shows all related commands on that matched keyword

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / kiran kumar

ok words

Then we can see what ever commands in ok boot prompt

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / rahul

shifting <search String> is the correct answer. pkill -9
kills the process from a solaris shell and this cannot be
used on OK prompt

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / baskar k.m

ok help <command> to get more information of the command at
the ok PROM.

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / lochan

obp
banner
printenv
probe scsi all
show net
prtconf
prtvtoc
mount
df

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / bala balaji

All the commands are stored in the following location
/usr/sbin
just go to the above location and type the first letter and
press tab twice.

and can check the nature of the command by going into man page

$man "command"

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How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? ..

Answer / ramesh

pkill -9 <process name>

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