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Catalyst 2950 and Catalyst 2955 Switch Command Reference
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Chapter 2 Catalyst 2950 and 2955 Cisco IOS Commands
show file
This is an example of output from the show file information nvram:startup-config command:
Switch# show file information nvram:startup-config
nvram:startup-config:
type is ascii text
Table 2-18 lists the possible file types for the previous example.
This is an example of output from the show file systems command:
Switch# show file systems
File Systems:
Size(b) Free(b) Type Flags Prefixes
* 7741440 433152 flash rw flash:
7741440 433152 unknown rw zflash:
32768 25316 nvram rw nvram:
- - network rw tftp:
- - opaque rw null:
- - opaque rw system:
- - opaque ro xmodem:
- - opaque ro ymodem:
- - network rw rcp:
- - network rw ftp:
Table 2-17 show file descriptors Field Descriptions
Field Description
FD File descriptor. The file descriptor is a small integer used to specify the file once
it has been opened.
Position Byte offset from the start of the file.
Open Flags supplied when opening the file.
PID Process ID of the process that opened the file.
Path Location of the file.
Table 2-18 Possible File Types
Field Description
ascii text Configuration file or other text file.
coff Runable image in coff format.
ebcdic Text generated on an IBM mainframe.
image (a.out) Runnable image in a.out format.
image (elf) Runnable image in elf format.
lzw compression Lzw compressed file.
tar Text archive file used by the CIP.