EVE-NG and IOL copy run unix:

Lately, I've found myslelf working more on EVE-NG than the Cisco Learning Labs (CLL) which has allowed me to go beyond the constraints of the traditional learnings and key topics and allows me to tinker more than I probably should.

A long time ago I thought that EVE (possibly pre-NG) allowed the user to litterally download the text file of the running config to file instead of having to rely on term len 0, show run and screen-scraping the contents and then offloading the resulting clipboard to a file and saving it *yawn*

Today I discovered that you can save a config straight to a file in EVE-NG on the linux filesystem (at least you can with IOL).

The way to do this is simply use the copy command with unix:file as the destination, replacing file with the name of the file;

R1#copy start unix:r1.txt 

Destination filename [r1.txt]? 

1683 bytes copied in 0.011 secs (153000 bytes/sec)

R1#

It is litterally that simple.

You can then find the file under the EVE-NG staging area, which you can then work on as a plain-text file;

root@eve-ng:~# ls -alh /opt/unetlab/tmp/1/e6eadfea-e000-41d7-abe9-98f8004bb23f/1 | egrep "r.\.txt$"

-rw-rw-r-- 1 unl1 unl 1.7K Sep 19 16:40 r1.txt

root@eve-ng:~#

I can only imagine how useful this could be in reverse by merging config snips straight from the emulated nodes off the host filesystem and perhaps even generating templates for labs etc.

More testing is required.