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AppendixB Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images Working with the Flash File System
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:
•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
The tar-filename.tar is the tar file to display.
You can also limit the display of the files b y specifying an optio nal list o f f iles or dir ectorie s after th e tar
file; then only these files are displayed. If none are specified, all files and directories are displayed.
This example shows how to display the contents of the c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1.tar file that is in
Flash memory:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1.tar
info (219 bytes)
c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/ (directory)
c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/html/ (directory)
c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/html/foo.html (0 bytes)
c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1.bin (610856 bytes)
c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/info (219 bytes)
info.ver (219 bytes)
This example shows how to display only the c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/html di rec tor y and i ts
contents:
Switch# archive tar /table flash:c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/html
c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/html/ (directory)
c2950lre-i6l2q4-mz.121-21.EA1/html/foo.html (0 bytes)
Extracting a tar File
To extract a tar file into a directory on the flash file system, use the 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. The se option s a re s uppo rte d:
•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
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 th e ta r f ile 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.