Reading a WAFL file

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

Considerations

Attention: A user who has the capability to execute the rdfile command can read any file on the storage system. Exercise caution about security issues with the rdfile command.

Step

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 may have indeterminate output.

Example rdfile command

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
toaster>

Parent topic: About writing and reading files on the storage system

Related tasks

Writing a WAFL file