How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you
only know part of the command?
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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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Answer / ramanji
sifting <part of command>
then it shows all related commands on that matched keyword
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ok words
Then we can see what ever commands in ok boot prompt
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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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Answer / baskar k.m
ok help <command> to get more information of the command at
the ok PROM.
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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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