On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Deron Johnson wrote:

A few potentially useful hidden commands have been mentioned on this list recently. Namely

rdfile - read a file wrfile - write a file pktt - packet trace

Are there any others worth knowing about?

If you take the Netapp 202 course they'll go into a lot of other ones. But many of those are pretty specialized or obscure.

Someone mentioned that these commands may be dangerous to use. Any comments?

Umm, well I doubt you'll hurt yourself with rdfile -- it's handy for quickly listing files on the console. But of course you can go to your admin host and cat /net/toaster/whatever, too. Some of the really obscure stuff (like the ~pi things at the boot floppy level) can be pretty drastic if you aren't careful. I managed to hose a filer or two in the Netapp 202 lab that way!

Let's put it this way -- I'm glad I took that course and know some background about those commands. But if I ever get the filer in deep I'm still going to call support and do what they say, instead of grabbing my Netapp 202 notebook and just shooting from the hip.