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3 CLI overview

Nortel Secure Router 8000 Series

Configuration Guide - Basic Configuration

3.4 CLI error messages

If a user enters incorrect commands, the grammar check fails and the CLI reports error

messages to the user. If all of the commands are correct, the grammar check passes. Table 3-2

describes common error messages.

Table 3-2 Common CLI error messages

Error messages

Cause of the error

Unrecognized command

The command cannot be found.

The key word cannot be found.

Wrong parameter

A parameter type error occurred.

The parameter value exceeds the boundary.

Incomplete command

Incomplete command entered.

Too many parameters

Too many parameters entered.

Ambiguous command

Indefinite parameters entered.

3.5 Command history

The CLI automatically saves a command history for each user. This function is similar to the
DOS-Key. By default, the CLI saves a maximum of 10 commands for each user. Table 3-3
describes the command history operations. You can run the saved history command at any

time.

Table 3-3 Access the command history

Action

Key or command

Result

Display the
command

history.

display

history-command

Display the user’s command history.

Access the last
history

command.

Up cursor key

t or Ctrl+P

Display the last history command if an earlier

history command exists. Otherwise, the alarm
bell rings.

Access the
next history

command.

Down cursor key

1

or Ctrl+N

Display the next history command if a later

history command exists. Otherwise, the command

is cleared and the alarm bell rings.

ED NOTE

On the Windows 9X HyperTerminal, the cursor key | is invalid because the Windows 9 HyperTerminal
defines keys differently. In this case, you can replace the cursor key | with

Ctrl+P

.

When you use the history command, note the following:

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