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title: "show file"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/nios86/35821814/show%20file"
format: markdown
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The` ``show`` ``file`` `command displays specified groups and files that you can access for diagnostic purposes. You can page through the display 10 lines at a time. Use this command to view files after you enable the bloxTools Environment service.

# Syntax

`show file {groups | ``group``}`  
`show file ``group file1 ``[``file2 ``...] [follow]`

If you use the `show file `command without any arguments, it displays all the files that you can manage with this command. If you use the groups argument, a list of all groups is shown.  
If you use the `show file`** **command with a `group` argument but no `file``,` it displays a list of all the files in the specified group. If you use the `show file `command with `group` and `file` arguments, you can specify a real-time (live) view of the file—the same as the using tail -f arguments. You can interrupt the display by pressing `Enter``.`

| **Argument** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| `groups`` ` | Displays a list of available groups. |
| `group`` ` | Displays a list of files for the specified group. |
| `group file1 ``[``file2 ``...]`` ` | Displays the specified (group) files. |
| `follow`` ` | Displays the contents of the file live, in real-time. |

# Examples

Viewing bloxTools Files

`Infoblox > ``show file bloxtools portal_access`  
`Showing file /storage/web-portal/udata/logs/access.log`  
`Infoblox > show file bloxtools portal_error`  
`Showing file /storage/web-portal/udata/logs/error.log`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:07:59 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)`  
``www.infoblox.com' does NOT match server name!?`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:08:03 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication`  
`...`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:08:03 2008] [notice] Digest: done`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:08:04 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)`  
``www.infoblox.com' does NOT match server name!?`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:08:04 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8h`  
`DAV/2 mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:11:34 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)`  
``www.infoblox.com' does NOT match server name!?`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:11:39 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication`  
`...`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:11:39 2008] [notice] Digest: done`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:11:40 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)`  
``www.infoblox.com' does NOT match server name!?`  
`[Thu Sep 04 11:11:40 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8h`  
`DAV/2 mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations`

` ``Infoblox > ``show file bloxtools portal_log`  
`Showing file /storage/web-portal/udata/logs/syslog.log`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Linux version 2.6.17.4 (root@buildvm2) (gcc version`  
`3.2.1) #1 Thu Aug 28 02:20:30 EDT 2008`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 32768`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: DMA zone: 32768 pages, LIFO batch:7`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Built 1 zonelists`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/root rootfstype=hostfs`  
`rootflags=/storage/web-portal/root_fs ubdb=/storage/web-portal/swapfile`  
`ubdc=/storage/web-portal/storagefile mem=128M eth0=tuntap,uml_htap0 con0=null con1=pts`  
`con2=pts hostfs=/storage/web-portal`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536`  
`bytes)`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768`  
`bytes)`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Memory: 124372k available`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 1648.23 BogoMIPS (lpj=8241152)`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) syslog-ng[699]: syslog-ng starting up; version='2.0.6'`  
`Sep 4 11:07:55 (none) kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512`  
`Enter <return> to continue with More lines or enter q<return> to proceed to the next`  
`file`` `