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CLI Features 2135
Display Features CLI offers the following feature:
When the information displayed exceeds one screen, you can pause using one of
the methods shown in
Table 64 .
History Command The CLI can automatically save the commands that have been used. You can
invoke and repeatedly execute them as needed. By default, the CLI can save up to
ten commands for each user. You can use the
history-command max-size
command to set the capacity of the history commands log buffer for the current
user interface (For the detailed description of the
history-command max-size
command, refer to “User Interface Configuration” on page 2155 ). The following
table lists the operations that you can perform.
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You may use arrow keys to access history commands in Windows 200X and XP
Terminal or Telnet. However, the up-arrow and down-arrow keys are invalid in
Windows 9X HyperTerminal, because they are defined in a different way. You can
use <Ctrl+P> and <Ctrl+N> instead.
Command Line Error
Information
The commands are executed only if they have no syntax error. Otherwise, error
information is reported.
Table 66 lists some common errors.
Table 64 Display functions
Action Function
Press <Space> when information display pauses Continues to display information of the
next screen page
Press <Enter> when information display pauses Continues to display information of the
next line.
Enter <Ctrl+C> when information display pauses Stops the display and the command
execution.
<Ctrl+E> Moves the cursor to the end of the current
line.
Table 65 Follow these steps to access history commands:
To do... Use the key/command... Result
View the history
commands display history-command Displays the commands that
you have entered
Access the previous history
command Up-arrow key or <Ctrl+P> Displays the earlier history
command, if there is any.
Access the next history
command Down-arrow key or <Ctrl+N> Displays the next history
command, if there is any.
Table 66 Common command line errors
Error information Cause
% Unrecognized command found at ’^’ position. The command was not found.
The keyword was not found.
Parameter type error
The parameter value is beyond the
allowed range.
% Incomplete command found at ’^’ position. Incomplete command
% Ambiguous command found at ’^’ position. Ambiguous command