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Here we are combining two powerful IOS commands to save time when searching for text.

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In this example, we are looking to see if a dial-peer with a destination pattern of 1000 has been created, and we want to see what dial-peer number it is using. The first command we will use is:

         show run linenum | include 1000

This will display the text with the destination pattern as follows:

         Router#show run linenum | include 1000
         254 : destination-pattern 1000
         280 : number 1000
         306 : scheduler allocate 20000 1000

We can see that the destination pattern command is on line 254. Now we can do a show run starting with line number 253:

         Router#show run linenum | begin 253
         253 : dial-peer voice 1321 voip
         254 : destination-pattern 1000
         255 : session target ipv4:10.1.1.6

Thus we can see that the dial peer number used is 1321.

There are many cases where this can be used; another example would be with IPSec crypto maps or ISAKMP policies.

These commands can be used in many cases to save time when searching for text.