Ubuntu Manpage: arccp

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NAME

       arccp - copy files

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
              arccp [OPTION...] source destination

       The arccp command copies files to, from and between grid storage elements.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show help options

       -p, --passive
              use passive transfer (off by default if secure is on, on by default if secure is not requested)

       -n, --nopassive
              do not try to force passive transfer

       -f, --force
              force overwrite of existing destination

       -i, --indicate
              show progress indicator

       -T, --notransfer
              do not transfer, but register source into destination. destination must be a meta-url.

       -u, --secure
              use secure transfer (insecure by default)

       -y, --cache=path
              path to local cache (use to put file into cache)

       -r, --recursive
              operate recursively

       -D, --depth=level
              operate recursively up to specified level

       -R, --retries=number
              number of retries before failing file transfer

       -L, --location=URL
              physical  location  to  write  to  when  destination is an indexing service. Must be specified for
              indexing services which do  not  automatically  generate  physical  locations.  Can  be  specified
              multiple times - locations will be tried in order until one succeeds.

       -3, --thirdparty
              perform  third  party  transfer,  where the destination pulls from the source (only available with
              GFAL plugin)

       -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 arccp command copies files to, from and between grid storage elements. It can also be used to
register files in file index catalogues, either automatically as the result of a file transfer, or by
using the --notransfer option. For more information on ARC URL syntax please read "Protocols, Uniform
Resource Locators (URL) and Extensions Supported in ARC" [NORDUGRID-TECH-7].

If source and/or destination start 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 arccp performs like it were called multiple
times - once for every URL.

When copying directories both the source and destination must end with the directory separator character
and a recursion option -r or -D must be specified.

All data transfer goes through the machine of the caller of arccp, even in the case of two remote
endpoints, unless the --thirdparty option is used. With this option credentials are delegated to the
destination and it pulls the data directly from the source. The timeout option in this case applies to
the entire transfer itself and default timeouts are used for connections to the remote endpoints. Note
that third-party transfer is only possible if the GFAL2 plugin is installed.

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. To connect source or
destination to standard input/output use '-' instead of URL.

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

       arccp -i gsiftp://example.com/grid/file1.dat /tmp/file1.dat

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

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