HP VPN Firewall Appliances System Management and Maintenance Command Reference

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dir
Use dir to display detailed information about the files and subdirectories under the current directory on
the FTP server.
Use dir remotefile to display detailed information about a specific file or directory on the FTP server.
Use dir remotefile localfile to save detailed information about a specific file or directory on the FTP server
to a local file.
Syntax
dir [ remotefile [ localfile ] ]
Views
FTP client view
Default command level
3: Manage level
Parameters
remotefile: Name of the file or directory on the remote FTP server.
localfile: Name of the local file used to save the displayed information.
Usage guidelines
The Is command displays only the names of files and directories. The dir command displays more
information about the files and directories, such as the size and the creation date.
Examples
# Display detailed information about the files and subdirectories under the current directory on the FTP
server.
[ftp] dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,46,5,68).
125 ASCII mode data connection already open, transfer starting for /*.
drwxrwxrwx 1 noone nogroup 0 Aug 08 2006 logfile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 noone nogroup 20471748 May 11 10:21 test.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 noone nogroup 4001 Dec 08 2007 config.cfg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 noone nogroup 3608 Jun 13 2007 startup.cfg
drwxrwxrwx 1 noone nogroup 0 Dec 03 2007 test
-rwxrwxrwx 1 noone nogroup 299 Oct 15 2007 key.pub
226 Transfer complete.
FTP: 394 byte(s) received in 0.189 second(s), 2.00K byte(s)/sec.
[ftp]
# Save detailed information about file router.cfg to aa.txt.
[ftp] dir router.cfg aa.txt
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,50,17,158).
125 ASCII mode data connection already open, transfer starting for /router.cfg.
....226 Transfer complete.
FTP: 67 byte(s) received in 4.600 second(s), 14.00 byte(s)/sec.
# View the content of aa.txt.