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URLs
The arguments for the 7710 SR OS file commands are modeled after standard universal resource
locator (URL). A URL refers to a file (a file-url) or a directory (a directory-url).
7710 SR OS supports operations on both the local file system and on remote files. For the
purposes of categorizing the applicability of commands to local and remote file operations, URLs
are divided into three types of URLs: local, ftp and tftp. The syntax for each of the URL types are
listed in
Table 12: URL Types and Syntax
URL Type
local-url
[cflash-id:\]path
ftp-url
ftp://[username[:password]@]host/path
ftp://[username[:password]@]host/./path
tftp-url
tftp://host[/path]/filename
Note that if the host portion of the URL is an IPv6 address, then the address should be enclosed in
square brackets. For example:
The 7710 SR OS accepts either forward slash ("/") or backslash ("\") characters to delimit
directory and/or filenames in URLs. Similarly, the 7710 SR OS SCP client application can use
either slash or backslash characters, but not all SCP clients treat backslash characters as equivalent
to slash characters. In particular, UNIX systems will often times interpret the backslash character
as an "escape" character. This can cause problems when using an external SCP client application
to send files to the 7710 SR OS SCP server. If the external system treats the backslash like an
escape character, the backslash delimiter will get stripped by the parser and will not be transmitted
to the 7710 SR OS SCP server.
For example, a destination directory specified as "cf1:\dir1\file1" will be transmitted to the 7710
SR OS SCP server as "cf1:dir1file1" where the backslash escape characters are stripped by the
SCP client system before transmission. On systems where the client treats the backslash like an
"escape" character, a double backslash "\\" or the forward slash "/" can typically be used to
properly delimit directories and the filename.
7710 SR OS Basic System Configuration Guide
Table
12.
Syntax
ftp://user:passw@[3ffe::97]/./testfile.txt
tftp://[1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:6666:7777:8888]/./testfile.txt
File System Management
Notes
cflash-id is the compact flash device name.
Values: cf1:, cf2:, cf3:
An absolute ftp path from the root of the remote
file system.
username is the ftp user name
password is the ftp user password
host is the remote host
path is the path to the directory or file
A relative ftp path from the user's home
directory. Note the period and slash ("./") in this
syntax compared to the absolute path.
tftp is only supported for operations on file-urls.
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