show file <file>
Displays information about a file or directory.
- file
- A file or directory about which to display information.
Operational mode
Use this command to display information about a file or directory.
This command is optimized for configuration files and directories in that command completion refers to the /config directory of all known system images. For example, running://config/ indicates the /config directory of the currently running system, and test-image1://config/ indicates the /config directory of an image called test-image1. If needed, however, any other location within the file system can be specified.
Different information is displayed for various file types, as shown in the following table.
| File Type | Information Displayed |
|---|---|
| Directory | Directory contents |
| Text file | Information about the file and file contents |
| Packet capture file (*.pcap) | Information about the file and file contents in the form of a packet capture from tshark |
| Binary file | Information about the file and file contents in the form of a hexadecimal dump |
The following example shows how to display the contents of the /config directory on the currently running system.
vyatta@vyatta:~$ show file running://config
########### DIRECTORY LISTING ###########
total 36K
drwxrwsr-x 1 root 4.0K Mar 21 17:21 archive/
drwxrwsr-x 1 root 4.0K Mar 21 07:56 auth/
drwxrwsr-x 1 root 4.0K Mar 21 07:56 scripts/
drwxrwsr-x 1 root 4.0K Mar 21 07:56 support/
drwxr-sr-x 1 root 4.0K Mar 21 07:57 url-filtering/
drwxrwsr-x 1 root 4.0K Mar 21 07:56 user-data/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root 1.9K Mar 21 17:21 config.boot
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root 4.2K Mar 20 17:14 webgui2_default_config.boot
vyatta@vyatta:~$This example shows how to display partial contents of the /tmp/test1.pcap file on the currently running system.
vyatta@vyatta:~$ show file running://tmp/test1.pcap
########### FILE INFO ###########
Binary File:
Permissions: -rw-------
Owner: root
Size: 35K
Modified: Apr 24 19:41
Description: tcpdump capture file (little-endian) -
version 2.4 (dataplane, capture length 65535)
########### FILE DATA ###########
1 0.000000 192.168.56.101 -> 192.168.56.1 SSH Encrypted response
packet len=128
2 0.000155 192.168.56.1 -> 192.168.56.101 TCP 54566 > ssh [ACK]
Seq=1 Ack=129 Win=1002 Len=0 TSV=186250939 TSER=21591709
3 0.259966 192.168.56.101 -> 192.168.56.1 SSH Encrypted response
packet len=48
4 0.260216 192.168.56.1 -> 192.168.56.101 TCP 54566 > ssh [ACK]
Seq=1 Ack=177 Win=1002 Len=0 TSV=186251199 TSER=21591735
...This example shows how to display partial contents of the /config/r1.tar file on the currently running system.
vyatta@vyatta:~$ show file running://config/r1.tar
File Name: running://config/r1.tar
Binary File:
Permissions: -rwxrwxr-x
Owner: vyatta
Size: 20K
Modified: Feb 6 23:09
Description: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
########### FILE DATA ###########
00000000 72 31 2f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 |r1/.............|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 |................|
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