Recalling Commands; Disabling The Command History Feature; Using Editing Features; Enabling And Disabling Editing Features - Cisco IE-4000 Software Configuration Manual

Using the Command-Line Interface
How to Use the CLI to Configure Features
The range is from 0 to 256.
Beginning in line configuration mode, enter this command to configure the number of command lines the switch records
for all sessions on a particular line:
Switch(config-line)# history
The range is from 0 to 256.

Recalling Commands

To recall commands from the history buffer, perform one of the actions listed in
optional.
Table 4 Recalling Commands
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Action
Press Ctrl-P or the up arrow key.
Press Ctrl-N or the down arrow key.
show history
1. The arrow keys function only on ANSI-compatible terminals such as VT100s.

Disabling the Command History Feature

The command history feature is automatically enabled. You can disable it for the current terminal session or for the
command line. These procedures are optional.
To disable the feature during the current terminal session, enter the terminal no history privileged EXEC command.
To disable command history for the line, enter the no history line configuration command.

Using Editing Features

This section describes the editing features that can help you manipulate the command line. It contains these sections:

Enabling and Disabling Editing Features, page 13
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Editing Commands Through Keystrokes, page 14
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Editing Command Lines That Wrap, page 15

Enabling and Disabling Editing Features

Although enhanced editing mode is automatically enabled, you can disable it, reenable it, or configure a specific line to
have enhanced editing. These procedures are optional.
To globally disable enhanced editing mode, enter this command in line configuration mode:
[ ]
size number-of-lines
Result
Recall commands in the history buffer, beginning with the most recent command.
Repeat the key sequence to recall successively older commands.
Return to more recent commands in the history buffer after recalling commands
with Ctrl-P or the up arrow key. Repeat the key sequence to recall successively
more recent commands.
While in privileged EXEC mode, list the last several commands that you just
entered. The number of commands that appear is controlled by the setting of the
terminal history global configuration command and the history line configuration
command.
(optional)
(optional)
(optional)
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Table 4 on page 13. These actions are