xrd(1)

NAME

xrd - interactive XRootD ftp-like client

SYNOPSIS

xrd HOST [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

Xrd is a ftp-like(1) tool to interact with an xrootd server.

Commands are

cd directory

Change directory.

envputint variable integer

Set an environment variable variable to an integer value integer.

envputstr variable string

Set an environment variable variable to a string value string.

help

Show interactive help.

exit

Exit the client

connect [host:[port]]

Connect to the specified host.

dirlist [directory]

Lists the contents of the specified directory or current directory if no argument is given.

stat file-or-directory

Get information on a file or directory.

existsfile file

Checks if a file exists on the server.

existsdir directory

Checks if a directory exists on the server.

getchecksum file

Computes and returns the check sum of a file.

isfileonline file

Tells if the specified file is online.

mv file1 file2

Moves file1 to file2 on the same server.

mkdir directory [user] [group] [other]

Creates a directory with optional permissions.

chmod file-or-directory user group other

Modifies file permissions.

rm file

Removes a file.

rmdir directory

Removes a directory.

prepare file

Stages a file in.

cat file [xrdcp parameters]

Outputs a file on standard output using xrdcp(1). file can be a root://

cp file-or-directory file-or-directory [xrdcp parameters]

Copies a file using xrdcp(1). file-or-directory are always relative to the current remote path. Also, they can be root:// URLs specifying any other host

OPTIONS

-dLEVEL

Set the debug level

-DIparam value

Set parameter param to an integer value. Override the default value of an internal XrdClient setting.

-DSparam value

Set parameter param to a string value. Override the default value of an internal XrdClient setting.

-O

Adds some opaque information to any used xrootd url.

-h

Show help.

SEE ALSO

root(1), xrootd(1)

See also the ROOT webpages: http://root.cern.ch ⟨http://root.cern.ch⟩

ORIGINAL AUTHORS

Fabrizio Furano

COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Christian Holm Christensen <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).