Displaying The Contents Of A File; Working With Configuration Files - Cisco IE-4000 Software Configuration Manual

Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images

Working with Configuration Files

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For the local flash file system, the syntax is
flash:
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For the FTP, the syntax is
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
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For the RCP, the syntax is
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
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For the TFTP, the syntax is
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
The tar-filename.tar is the tar file from which to extract files.
For flash:/file-url [dir/file...], specify the location on the local flash file system into which the tar file is extracted. Use the
dir/file... option to specify an optional list of files or directories within the tar file to be extracted. If none are specified, all
files and directories are extracted.
This example shows how to extract the contents of a tar file located on the TFTP server at 172.20.10.30. This command
extracts just the new-configs directory into the root directory on the local flash file system. The remaining files in the
saved.tar file are ignored.
Switch# archive tar /xtract tftp://172.20.10.30/saved.tar flash:/new-configs

Displaying the Contents of a File

To display the contents of any readable file, including a file on a remote file system, use the more [/ascii | /binary |
/ebcdic] file-url privileged EXEC command:.
This example shows how to display the contents of a configuration file on a TFTP server:
Switch# more tftp://serverA/hampton/savedconfig
!
! Saved configuration on server
!
version 11.3
service timestamps log datetime localtime
service linenumber
service udp-small-servers
service pt-vty-logging
!
<output truncated>
Working with Configuration Files
This section describes how to create, load, and maintain configuration files.
Configuration files contain commands entered to customize the function of the Cisco IOS software. A way to create a
basic configuration file is to use the setup program or to enter the setup privileged EXEC command. For more
information, see Performing Switch Setup Configuration, page 59
You can copy (download) configuration files from a TFTP, FTP, or RCP server to the running configuration or startup
configuration of the switch. You might want to perform this for one of these reasons:
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To restore a backed-up configuration file.
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To use the configuration file for another switch. For example, you might add another switch to your network and want
it to have a configuration similar to the original switch. By copying the file to the new switch, you can change the
relevant parts rather than recreating the whole file.
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