Displaying The Contents Of A Tar File - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Configuration Manual

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

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:
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The tar-filename.tar is the tar file to display.
You can also limit the display of the files by specifying an optional list of files or directories after the 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 directory and its
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. These options are supported:
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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.
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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
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
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