NAME¶

arcls - list files or directories

DESCRIPTION¶

The arcls command is used for listing files in grid storage elements and file index catalogues.

SYNOPSIS¶

arcls [options] url

OPTIONS¶

-l, --long

long format (like ls -l). The name of the object is followed by these elements: filetype of object, size in bytes, modification time, checksum and access latency (ONLINE or NEARLINE). The elements for which information is available is protocol-dependent.

-L, --locations

show URLs of file locations (replicas) registered in index services.

-m, --metadata

list all available metadata.

-r, --recursive

operate recursively

-D, --depth=level

operate recursively up to specified level

-n, --nolist

show only description of requested object, do not list content of directories (like ls -d).

-f, --forcelist

treat requested object as directory and always try to list content

-c, --checkaccess

check readability of object. Retrieving and showing information about object is suppressed.

-P, --listplugins

list the available plugins (protocols supported)

-t, --timeout=seconds

timeout in seconds (default 20)

-z, --conffile=filename

configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)

-d, --debug=debuglevel

FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG

-v, --version

print version information

-?, --help

print help

ARGUMENTS¶

url

the location to list

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION¶

The arcls command lists files and directories on grid storage elements and in file index catalogues. Depending on the installed libraries (check with -P ), the following protocols may be used: file (file:// prefix may be omitted), http, https, httpg, ftp, gsiftp, srm, root.

In the case of a directory/fileset, attributes of objects belonging to it will be retrieved, unless --nolist is specified.

If url starts from '@', the remainder should be a path to a local file containing list of URLs, one per line. Then arcls acts as if it was called multiple times, once for each URL. For more information on ARC URL syntax please read "Protocols, Uniform Resource Locators (URL) and Extensions Supported in ARC" [NORDUGRID-TECH-7]

FILES¶

~/.arc/client.conf

Some options can be given default values by specifying them in the ARC client configuration file. By using the --conffile option a different configuration file can be used than the default.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶

X509_USER_PROXY

The location of the user's Grid proxy file. Shouldn't be set unless the proxy is in a non-standard location.

ARC_LOCATION

The location where ARC is installed can be specified by this variable. If not specified the install location will be determined from the path to the command being executed, and if this fails a WARNING will be given stating the location which will be used.

ARC_PLUGIN_PATH

The location of ARC plugins can be specified by this variable. Multiple locations can be specified by separating them by : (; in Windows). The default location is $ARC_LOCATION/lib/arc (\ in Windows).

EXAMPLE¶

arcls -l gsiftp://example.com/grid/file.dat

COPYRIGHT¶

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

AUTHOR¶

ARC software is developed by the NorduGrid Collaboration (http://www.nordugrid.org), please consult the AUTHORS file distributed with ARC. Please report bugs and feature requests to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org

SEE ALSO¶

arccp(1), arcmkdir(1), arcrename(1), arcrm(1),