Copy a Statement in the Configuration

When you have many statements in a configuration that are similar, you can add one statement, then make copies of that statement. Copying a statement duplicates that statement and the entire hierarchy of statements configured under that statement. Copying statements is useful when you are configuring many physical or logical interfaces of the same type.

To make a copy of an existing statement in the configuration, use the configuration mode copy command:

copy existing-statement to new-statement 

Immediately after you have copied a portion of the configuration, the configuration might not be valid. You must check the validity of the new configuration, and if necessary, modify either the copied portion or the original portion for the configuration to be valid.

Example: Copy a Statement in the Configuration

After you have created one virtual connection (VC) on an interface, copy its configuration to create a second VC:

[edit interfaces]

user@host# show

at-1/0/0 {

    description "PAIX to MAE West"

    encapsulation atm-pvc;

        unit 61 {

            point-to-point;

            vci 0.61;

            family inet {

                address 10.0.1.1/24;

            }

        }

    }

}

[edit interfaces]

user@host# edit at-1/0/0

[edit interfaces at-1/0/0]

user@host# copy unit 61 to unit 62

[edit interfaces at-1/0/0]

user@host# show

description "PAIX to MAE West"

encapsulation atm-pvc;

    unit 61 {

        point-to-point;

        vci 0.61;

        family inet {

            address 10.0.1.1/24;

        }

    }

    unit 62 {

        point-to-point;

        vci 0.61;

        family inet {

            address 10.0.1.1/24;

        }

    }

}