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)

       --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 7.0.0                             June 2025                                       ARCRENAME(1)