DETAILED STEPS
Purpose
Command or Action
Displays the directories on the specified file system.
dir filesystem:
Step 1
Example:
For
filesystem:
, use flash: for the system board flash device.
Device# dir flash:
Creates a new directory. Directory names are case sensitive
and are limited to 45 characters between the slashes (/); the
mkdir directory_name
Example:
Step 2
name cannot contain control characters, spaces, slashes,
quotes, semicolons, or colons.
Device# mkdir new_configs
Verifies your entry.
dir filesystem:
Example:
Step 3
Device# dir flash:
Removing Directories
To remove a directory with all its files and subdirectories, use the
delete /force /recursive filesystem:/file-url
privileged 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.
For
filesystem
, use
flash:
for the system board flash device. For
file-url
, enter the name of the directory to be
deleted. All of the files in the directory and the directory are removed.
When directories are deleted, their contents cannot be recovered.
Caution
Copying Files
To copy a file from a source to a destination, use the
copy source-url destination-url
privileged EXEC
command. For the source and destination URLs, you can use
running-config
and
startup-config
keyword
shortcuts. For example, the
copy running-config startup-config
command 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:, tftp:, scp:, http:, and https: and have these syntaxes:
• FTP—ftp:[[//username [:password]@location]/directory]/filename
• RCP—rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/filename
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Removing Directories