Cisco Systems 3750E manual Creating and Removing Directories, Copying Files, Mkdir oldconfigs

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

Working with the Flash File System

Creating and Removing Directories

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to create and remove a directory:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1
	dir filesystem:	Display the directories on the specified file system.
		For filesystem:, use flash: for the system board flash device.
Step 2
	mkdir old_configs	Create a new directory.
		The command example shows how to create the directory named old_configs.
		Directory names are case sensitive.
		Directory names are limited to 45 characters between the slashes (/); the name
		cannot contain control characters, spaces, deletes, slashes, quotes, semicolons,
		or colons.
Step 3
	dir filesystem:	Verify your entry.

To delete a directory with all its files and subdirectories, use the delete /force /recursive filesystem:/file-urlprivileged EXEC command.

Use the /recursive keyword to delete the named 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-swcommand but are no longer needed.

For filesystem, use flash: for the system board flash device. For file-url, enter the name of the directory to be deleted. All the files in the directory and the directory are removed.

Caution When files and directories are deleted, their contents cannot be recovered.

Copying Files

To copy a file from a source to a destination, use the copy source-urldestination-urlprivileged EXEC command. For the source and destination URLs, you can use running-configand startup-configkeyword shortcuts. For example, the copy running-configstartup-configcommand saves the currently running configuration file to the NVRAM section of flash memory to be used as the configuration during system initialization.

You can also copy from special file systems (xmodem:, ymodem:) as the source for the file from a network machine that uses the Xmodem or Ymodem protocol.

Network file system URLs include ftp:, rcp:, and tftp: and have these syntaxes:

•FTP—ftp:[[//username [:password]@location]/directory]/filename

•RCP—rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/filename

•TFTP—tftp:[[//location]/directory]/filename

Local writable file systems include flash:.

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