NAME

       arcls - list files or directories

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
              arcls [OPTION...] url

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

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show help options

       -l, --long
              long format (more information)

       -L, --locations
              show URLs of file locations

       -m, --metadata
              display 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

       -f, --forcelist
              treat requested object as directory and always try to list content

       -c, --checkaccess
              check readability of object, does not show any information about object

       -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 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]

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

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

arcls version 7.1.1                               October 2025                                          ARCLS(1)