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Solaris CLI keyboard shortcuts

A short article providing various keyboard shortcuts for command line edit of any commands quick and easily.

emacs Quick Reference Guide

Emacs commands are accompanied either by simultaneously holding down the control key or by first hitting the escape key.

vi Quick Reference Guide

All commands in vi are preceded by pressing the escape key. Each time a different command is to be entered, the escape key needs to be used.

Sun EEPROM Security

On Sun workstations and servers you can interact with the boot EEPROM (NVRAM) at any time by holding down the STOP (L1) key and pressing the "a" key

Sun Diskless Workstation Boot Sequence

To boot diskless workstations need to determine who they are, locate their boot server, locate their kernel and mount file systems from the server