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+The brief keywork requests a less verbose version
+of output for various show commands.
diff --git a/cli/documentation/en_US/format/details b/cli/documentation/en_US/format/details
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+The details keyword requests a more verbose version
+of various show commands.
diff --git a/cli/documentation/en_US/format/full-detail b/cli/documentation/en_US/format/full-detail
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+For a few show commands, the 'full-detail' is a request
+to display more information than the 'defails' keyword.
diff --git a/cli/documentation/en_US/format/summary b/cli/documentation/en_US/format/summary
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+A more terse output format.