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Reading a WAFL file

Data ONTAP enables you to read a file from the storage system and write its contents to standard output.

About this task

A user who has the capability to execute the rdfile command can read any file on the storage system. You should exercise caution about security issues with the rdfile command.

Step

  1. Enter the following command: rdfile filename
    filename is the name of the file whose content you want to read. It must be a fully qualified path name.
    Note: Files that contain non-ASCII characters might have indeterminate output.

Example of reading a WAFL file

The following example uses the rdfile command to read the content of the /etc/test file, which contains two lines, "line#1" and "line#2".
toaster> rdfile /etc/test
line#1
line#2
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