Command Reference Guide

3Com Router 3000 Ethernet Family
Command Reference Guide Chapter 4 File Management Commands
3Com Corporation
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Batch files are command line files. Executing a batch file is to execute a set of
command lines in the file. Command lines fall into two categories: configuration
command such as local-user, and operation command such as display
current-configuration. If all the commands in a batch file are configuration commands,
the file is called configuration file; if all the commands in the file are operation
commands, the file is called operation command file.
Executing a configuration file can fast add to the system new configurations or modify
the current configurations. When doing this, the system adds those new configurations
and rewrites the existing configurations that are different from the configuration file,
while leaving the existing configurations that are not involved intact.
You can execute an operation command file to have the system execute one or multiple
operation commands automatically. For example, to view system operating information,
you need to execute the commands display version and display
current-configuration. To view routing information, you must execute the display
rout-static command in addition. You can however put these three commands in a file,
running.bat for example, and save the file to Flash. After that, you can have the system
execute execute running.bat each time you want to execute these three commands.
You can put sets of commands that are always executed together in batch files. The
execute command allows you, especially as a service engineer, to execute a batch file
instead of entering each command in it individually.
Note that:
z The extension of batch files must be .bat.
z A valid batch file contains only standard command lines.
Example
# Execute the batch file “test.bat” in the flash:/ directory.
[3com] execute test.bat
4.1.9 file prompt
Syntax
file prompt {alert | quiet }
View
System view
Parameter
alert: Enables interactive acknowledgement when a user operation, deleting a file for
example, may result in data loss or corruption.
quiet: No prompt is displayed even when a user operation, deleting a file for example,
may result in data loss or corruption.