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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
archive tar
Defaults No default is defined.
Command Modes Privileged EXEC
Command History
Usage Guidelines Filenames and directory names are case sensitive.
Image names are case sensitive.
/table source-url Display the contents of an existing tar file to the screen.
For source-url, specify the source URL alias for the local or network file
system. These options are supported:
• The syntax for the local flash file system:
flash:
• The syntax for the FTP:
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
• The syntax for the RCP:
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
• The syntax for the TFTP:
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
The tar-filename.tar is the tar file to display.
/xtract source-url
flash:/file-url [dir/file...]
Extract files from a tar file to the local file system.
For source-url, specify the source URL alias for the local file system.
These options are supported:
• The syntax for the local flash file system:
flash:
• The syntax for the FTP:
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
• The syntax for the RCP:
rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
• The syntax for the TFTP:
tftp:[[//location]/directory]/tar-filename.tar
The tar-filename.tar is the tar file from which to extract.
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.
Release Modification
12.1(6)EA2 This command was introduced.