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)

       --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 7.0.0                                 June 2025                                           ARCLS(1)