stupid newbie question

I'm sure this is beyond stupid, but I cannot figure out how to get an ultra
simple command history recall function to work. If I say "%hist -g mystring"
and get a list of commands, I'll see a "column" on the left with appear to
be command numbers. Let's say that I now want to put command 45 on the
prompt line, edit it, and then execute it. I would think I would say
"%recall 45". But this command doesn't seem to do anything. What fundamental
mistake am I making. I have tried this in shells in both IEP and Spyder.

Thanks for any help!

- Andy



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