Deleting Files; Creating, Displaying And Extracting Files - Cisco Catalyst 9500 Manual

Working with the Flash File System
• HTTPS—https:[[//username [:password]@location]/directory]/filename
Note
Local writable file systems include flash:.
Some invalid combinations of source and destination exist. Specifically, you cannot copy these combinations:
• From a running configuration to a running configuration
• From a startup configuration to a startup configuration
• From a device to the same device (for example, the copy flash: flash: command is invalid)

Deleting Files

When you no longer need a file on a flash memory device, you can permanently delete it. To delete a file or
directory from a specified flash device, use the delete [/force] [/recursive] [filesystem:]/file-url privileged
EXEC command.
Use the /recursive keyword for deleting a directory and all subdirectories and the files contained in it. Use
the /force keyword to suppress the prompting that confirms a deletion of each file in the directory. You are
prompted only once at the beginning of this deletion process. Use the /force and /recursive keywords for
deleting old software images that were installed by using the archive download-sw command but are no
longer needed.
If you omit the filesystem: option, the device uses the default device specified by the cd command. For file-url,
you specify the path (directory) and the name of the file to be deleted.
When you attempt to delete any files, the system prompts you to confirm the deletion.
Caution
This example shows how to delete the file myconfig from the default flash memory device:
Device# delete myconfig

Creating, Displaying and Extracting Files

You can create a file and write files into it, list the files in a file, and extract the files from a file as described
in the next sections.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to create a file, display the contents, and extract it:
The password must not contain the special character '@'. If the character '@' is used, the copy fails to parse
the IP address of the server.
When files are deleted, their contents cannot be recovered.
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