Displaying Configuration without Break/Pause on a Cisco Router, WLC and ASA Firewall

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There are times you'll need to backup a device configuration using a terminal emulation program (such as PutTTy, TeraTerm or SecureCRT). One way to prevent an admin from hitting Enter or spacebar when issuing the show running-config command is to use the terminal length or pager command on a Cisco device. This also prevents the -More- from showing up on the output.


Cisco Router/Switch

Router#terminal length ?
  <0-512>  Number of lines on screen (0 for no pausing)

Router#terminal length 0       // ISSUE IN PRIVILEGED EXEC MODE


Cisco WLC

(Cisco Controller) >config paging ?
              
enable         enable paging
disable        disable paging
              
(Cisco Controller) >config paging disable


Cisco ASA Firewall

ciscoasa# terminal pager ?

  <0-2147483647>  Pager lines, 0 means no page-limit
  lines           The number following this keyword determines the number of
                  lines in a page before ---more--- prompt appears, default is
                  24

ciscoasa# terminal pager 0

ciscoasa# more system:running-config    // DISPLAYS TUNNEL-GROUP PRE-SHARED KEY