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Figure 3-7.  Viewing a List of Files in the Internal Flash
To view the contents of a file, follow this step:
View Configuration Files
Configuration files have three commented lines at the beginning of the file (Figure 3-8), to help you track 
the last time any user made a change to the file, which user made the change(s), and when the file was last 
saved to the startup-configuration.
In the running-configuration file, if there is a difference between the timestamp on the “Last configuration 
change,” and “Startup-config last updated,” you have made changes that have not been saved and will not 
be preserved upon a system reboot.
Step Task Command Syntax Command Mode
1 View the:
EXEC Privilege
contents of a file in the internal flash
show file flash://filename
contents of a file in the usb flash
show file usbflash://filename
running-configuration
show running-config
startup-configuration
show startup-config
FTOS#dir
Directory of flash:
  1  drwx       4096   Jan 01 1980 00:00:00 +00:00 .
  2  drwx       2048   May 10 2011 14:45:15 +00:00 ..
  3  drwx       4096   Feb 17 2011 00:28:00 +00:00 TRACE_LOG_DIR
  4  drwx       4096   Feb 17 2011 00:28:02 +00:00 CORE_DUMP_DIR
  5  d---       4096   Feb 17 2011 00:28:02 +00:00 ADMIN_DIR
  6  -rwx       1272   Apr 29 2011 16:15:14 +00:00 startup-config
  7  -rwx      10093   Feb 17 2011 20:48:02 +00:00 abhi-jan26.cfg
  8  -rwx     217155   Feb 22 2011 23:14:34 +00:00 show-tech-cfg.txt
  9  -rwx       5162   Mar 02 2011 04:02:58 +00:00 runn-feb6
 10  -rwx      10507   Mar 03 2011 01:17:16 +00:00 abhi-feb7.cfg
 11  -rwx          4   May 06 2011 22:05:06 +00:00 dhcpBindConflict
 12  -rwx       6900   Feb 17 2011 04:43:12 +00:00 startup-config.bak
 13  -rwx    1244038   Feb 13 2011 04:27:16 +00:00 f10cp_sysd_110213042625.acore.gz
flash: 2143281152 bytes total (2123755520 bytes free)
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