Command Manual – Getting Started 
Quidway S8500 Series Routing Switches  Chapter 1  
Commands Used to Log in to Switch
 
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You can either specify the number of commands to be queried (Command-Number) or 
input a string to query commands that match the string. You can the two methods 
separately or in combination.  
z  If you only specify Command-Number, the first Command-Number pieces of 
commands will be displayed.  
z  If you specify a regular expression “| { begin | include | exclude } Match-string”, 
all the commands that have been successfully executed by the user and that 
match the regular expression.  
z  If you specify both the number of commands Command-Number and a regular 
expression “| { begin | include | exclude } Match-string”, the system will display 
the commands that match the regular expression among the first 
Command-Number pieces of commands. 
Related command: history-command max-size. 
Example 
# Display all history commands in the buffer. 
<Quidway>display history-command 
  system-view 
  user-interface vty 0 
  user-interface vty 0 4 
  history-command max-size 100 
  quit 
  display vlan 
  display vlan all 
  acl name lc 
  interface Vlan-interface 1 
  ip address 10.11.113.14 24 
  quit 
  quit 
# Display the first 5 commands in the history command buffer.  
<Quidway>display history-command 5 
  system-view 
  user-interface vty 0 
  user-interface vty 0 4 
  history-command max-size 100 
  quit 
# Display all the buffered history commands that match the specified regular 
expression.  
<Quidway>display history-command | begin ip 
  ip address 10.11.113.14 24 
  quit