Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions Switch/Router Command History and Re-Executing Commands

General User Interface Guidelines
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Command History and Re-Executing Commands
The history command displays up to 50 commands numbered in order with the most recently
executed command listed last. The following is a typical example of the history command.
1: view mpx.cmd
2: vlan
3: at
4: atvl
5: vimcvl
6: mcvl
7: vivl
8: fwtvl
9: xlat
10: history
In the example above, the history command is listed last because it is the one that was
executed most recently. If you want to re-execute the last command, enter two exclamation
points (!!). In the example above, you could re-execute the history command by entering
!!
at the system prompt.
You can also display a specific number of commands by entering history followed by a
number less than or equal to the number of commands in the history buffer. For example, if
you entered
history 5
in the example above you would see the following:
7: vivl
8: fwtvl
9: xlat
10: history
11:history 5
The UI also provides several other ways to re-execute earlier commands. For example, you
can re-execute a specific command shown in the history list by entering an exclamation point
(!) followed by the number to the left of that command shown in the history list. In the exam-
ple at the beginning of this section, entering
!2
would re-execute the vlan command.
You can also re-execute a command a set number of commands back by entering an excla-
mation point and a minus sign (!-) followed by that set number of commands back. In the
example at the beginning of this section, entering
!-3
would re-execute the fwtvl command.