Useful commands to list interface descriptions

If you have many devices in your network, it can be useful to get a list of interfaces and their descriptions. To do so, simply use the following command:

show interface description

Depending on the device, this may also show you status information. Alternatively, you can use "show interface status" to get status information and also see the interface names.

These commands are also very useful with the "include" clause covered in an earlier tip. For example, type the following to show the interface description matching "client*":

sh int desc | incl client*

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