I was taken back by the question and felt it was not a fair question and did not like the impossible answer all. I knew there was a ballpark number. I am sure there are thousands more. I was relieved when I did not get the job. There is only one thing impossible to me, and that is making it out of this life alive! I normally would have let it go but it just hung around in my head for several weeks before I posted. ... View more

According to the Cisco IOS Master Command List All Releases. The ballpark figure is 16,794 commands. Due to paste and cut to excel there is a chance for errors. The break down is as follows. 2 -1 788 A 291 B 1913 C 2189 D 348 E 276 F 187 G 187 H 1663 I 2 J 51 K 418 L 1062 M 257 N 132 O 633 P 38 Q 530 R 4606 S 661 T 93 U 290 V 1 Y 13 Z There is no stupid question expect the one not asked! Now for the reason behind this question. I was asked this question on a phone interview. When I ask what the correct answer was I was given the same answer I received here from hobbe and leolaohoo. it's impossible to know because of all of the variables. And I felt that the (so called expert) was dodging the question and did not know the answer. And that led me to here. Vmiller was the only one that pointed me in the correct direction. Like I stated in my second posting why make this harder then it really is. And according to cisco yes all of the shows are commands. ... View more

No hidden commands No feature sets. Baseline IOS, 800 Series. It would be nice to have the hidden commands and feature sets. But not going to affect the reason I am hunting for the number of commands. I like how everybody wants to make this really hard and no one has thought of just plain baseline ios and a low end router. So now that I have defined this a little more let see where it leads. ... View more