NAME

       arcmkdir - create directories

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
              arcmkdir [OPTION...] url

       The arcmkdir command creates directories on grid storage elements and catalogs.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show help options

       -p, --parents
              make parent directories as needed

       -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  arcmkdir  command creates directories on grid storage elements and indexing services.  If the parent
       directory does not exist and -p is not specified, then arcmkdir will probably fail, but it depends on the
       protocol. The permissions on the new directory are the default of the server, or if the protocol requires
       them to be specified then the directory is only readable/writable/searchable by the user (the  equivalent
       of 700 on a file system).

       If  url starts 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 arcmkdir performs like it were called  multiple  times  -  once  for
       every URL.

       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.

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

       arcmkdir gsiftp://example.com/grid/newdir

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), arcrename(1), arcrm(1)

arcrm version 7.0.0                                 June 2025                                        ARCMKDIR(1)