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Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Administration Guide
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Chapter 5 Managing the ACE Software
Using the File System on the ACE
When you create a new context, the ACE creates a new context directory in Flash
memory to store context-specific data such as startup- configuration files.
The ACE provides a number of useful commands to help you manage software
con
figuration and image and files.This section contains the following topics that
will help you to manage files on the ACE:
• Listing the Files in a Directory
• Copying Files
• Uncompressing Files in the disk0: File System
• Untarring Files in the disk0: File System
• Creating a New Directory
• Deleting an Existing Directory
• Moving Files
• Deleting Files
• Displaying File Contents
• Saving show Command Output to a File
Listing the Files in a Directory
To display the directory contents of a specified file system, use the dir command in
Exec mode. This command displays a detailed list of directories and files
contained within the specified file system on the ACE, including names, sizes, and
time created. You may optionally specify the name of a directory to list.
The syntax for this command is:
dir {cor
e: | disk0:[directory/][filename] | image:[filename] |
volatile:[filename]}
The keywords and arguments are:
• core:—Displays the contents of the core: file system.
• disk0:—Displays the contents of the disk0: file system.
• image:—Displays the contents of the image: file system.
• volatile:—Displays the contents of the volatile: file system.
• directory/—(Optional) Contents of the specified directory.