NAME

       arcrename - rename file or directory

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
              arcrename [OPTION...] old_url new_url

       The arcrename command renames files on grid storage elements.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show help options

       -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)

       --anyca
              force  using  both  CA  certificates  configuration  for  Grid services (typically IGTF) and those
              provided by OpenSSL

       --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 arcrename command renames files or directories on grid storage elements and  indexing  services.  The
       path  component  of oldurl and newurl must differ and it must be the only component of both URLs which is
       different.  arcrename will exit with an error if the paths are equivalent or other components of the URLs
       are different. Renaming a URL to an existing  URL  will  either  fail  or  overwrite  the  existing  URL,
       depending  on  the  protocol.   arcrename  works  purely at the namespace level and does not perform data
       transfer.

       For more information on ARC URL syntax please  read  "Protocols,  Uniform  Resource  Locators  (URL)  and
       Extensions Supported in ARC" [NORDUGRID-TECH-7]

       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. However renaming  is  not
       supported or implemented for some of those protocols.

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

       arcrename gsiftp://example.com/grid/file.dat gsiftp://example.com/grid/new.file.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

       APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

SEE ALSO

       arccp(1), arcls(1), arcmkdir(1), arcrm(1)

arcrename version 7.1.1                           October 2025                                      ARCRENAME(1)