Reference Guide

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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 4-12), 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.
Figure 4-12. Tracking Changes with Configuration Comments
Step Task Command Syntax Command Mode
1 View the:
contents of a file in the internal flash
show file flash://filename
EXEC Privilege
contents of a file in the usb flash
show file usbflash://filename
EXEC Privilege
running-configuration
show running-config
EXEC Privilege
startup-configuration
show startup-config
EXEC Privilege
FTOS#show running-config
Current Configuration ...
! Version E8-3-17-38
! Last configuration change at Tue Jul 24 20:33:08 2012 by default
!
boot system stack-unit 1 primary tftp://10.11.9.21/dv-m1000e-2-b2
boot system stack-unit 1 default system: A:
boot system gateway 10.11.209.62
!
redundancy auto-synchronize full
!
service timestamps log datetime
!
hostname FTOS
!
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