Displaying The Contents Of A Tar File; Extracting A Tar File - Cisco IE 3000 Software Configuration Manual

Appendix B Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
This example shows how to create a tar file. This command writes the contents of the new-configs
directory on the local flash device to a file named saved.tar on the TFTP server at 172.20.10.30:
Switch# archive tar /create tftp:172.20.10.30/saved.tar flash:/new-configs

Displaying the Contents of a tar File

To display the contents of a tar file on the screen, use this privileged EXEC command:
archive tar /table source-url
For source-url, specify the source URL alias for the local or network file system. These options are
supported:
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The tar-filename.tar is the tar file to display.
You can also limit the display of the files by specifying an optional list of files or directories after the tar
file; then only those files appear. If none are specified, all files and directories appear.
This example shows how to display the contents of a switch tar file that is in flash memory:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:ies-lanbase-tar.122-44.EX.tar
ies-lanbase-mz.122-44.EX/ (directory)
ies-lanbase-mz.122-44.EX/html/ (directory)
ies-lanbase-mz.122-44.EX/html/combo.js (9353 bytes)
ies-lanbase-mz.122-44.EX/html/stylesheet.css (22059 bytes)
ies-lanbase-mz.122-44.EX/html/sorttable.js (48234 bytes)

Extracting a tar File

To extract a tar file into a directory on the flash file system, use this privileged EXEC command:
archive tar /xtract source-url flash:/file-url [dir/file...]
For source-url, specify the source URL alias for the local file system. These options are supported:
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The tar-filename.tar is the tar file from which to extract files.
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For the local flash file system, the syntax is
flash:
For the FTP, the syntax is
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
For the RCP, the syntax is
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
For the TFTP, the syntax is
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
For the local flash file system, the syntax is
flash:
For the FTP, the syntax is
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
For the RCP, the syntax is
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
For the TFTP, the syntax is
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
Working with the Flash File System
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