comments in cli

[Alex_Samad]

Hi

I have a text file with PANOS command line arguments (set) what character defines a comment line ?

is there one ?

[Shawverr]

Maybe???

Switch to scripting mode. In scripting mode, you can copy and paste commands from a text file directly into the CLI. Although you can do this without scripting-mode enabled (up to 20 lines). If you cut-and-paste a block of text into the CLI, examine the output of the lines you pasted. If you see lines that are truncated or generate errors, you may have to re-paste a smaller section of text, or switch to scripting-mode admin@PA-3060> set cli scripting-mode on

[Alex_Samad]

Hi

This seems a little silly - unable to allocate a character for comments. makes script files lot better by adding documentation to the script file.

Seems like very basic sort of stuff

A

[shaynekelly]

is it possible that the comment would be similar to Juniper (both FreeBSD) and would use the same type of comments found in .xml (see below)

I agree with Alex, seems silly that such a character doesn't exist, but with Palo's constant desire to do everything via GUI I guess that makes some sense. 

Palo folks can you please comment and let us know if below syntax is correct?

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[Dash.Ranasinghe]

No go...

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[anon4all]

i agree that a no comment character is a stupid omission on PA's part. common guys, put a comment character like #, ! or something into the config mode in CLI.