---
name: "arcrm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "nordugrid-arc-client"
version: "7.0.0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/arcrm"
---

# arcrm(1)

delete files

## NAME

arcrm - delete files

## DESCRIPTION

### Usage:

-

  arcrm \[OPTION...\] url \[url ...\]

The arcrm command deletes files on grid storage elements.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show help options

- **-f**, **--force**

  remove logical file name registration even if not all physical instances were removed

- **-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)

- **--no-authentication**

  do not perform any authentication for opened connections

- **--x509-authentication**

  perform X.509 authentication for opened connections

- **--token-authentication**

  perform token authentication for opened connections

- **--systemca**

  force using CA certificates configuration provided by OpenSSL

- **--gridca**

  force using CA certificates configuration for Grid services (typically IGTF)

- **--allowinsecureconnection**

  allow TLS connection which failed verification

- **-d**, **--debug**=*debuglevel*

  FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG

- **-v**, **--version**

  print version information

## EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

The **arcrm** command deletes files on grid storage elements and indexing services. In the case of an indexing service url all physical instances of  the file corresponding to the given locations are deleted and unregistered. If an indexing service url is given without locations,  all physical instances and all meta-information about file are deleted. For more information on ARC URL syntax please read "Protocols, Uniform Resource Locators (URL) and Extensions Supported in ARC" \[NORDUGRID-TECH-7\]

If **url** starts from '@', the remaining argument is assumed to be a path to a local file containing a list of URLs, one per line. In this case **arcrm** performs like it were called with all those URLs as arguments.

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.

## 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

arcrm gsiftp://example.com/grid/file.dat

## NOTES

Lack of recursion is a feature.

## 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.

## 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

## COPYRIGHT

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

## SEE ALSO

[**arccp**(1)](/arccp/1.md), [**arcls**(1)](/arcls/1.md), **[arcmkdir(1)](/arcmkdir/1.md),** [**arcrename**(1)](/arcrename/1.md)