NAME

       arcrm - delete files

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
              arcrm [OPTION...] url [url ...]

       The arcrm command deletes files on grid storage elements.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show help options

       -f, --force
              remove logical file name registration even if not all physical instances were removed

       -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  arcrm  command  deletes  files  on  grid  storage elements and indexing services.  In the case of an
       indexing service url all physical instances of the file corresponding to the given locations are  deleted
       and  unregistered.  If an indexing service url is given without locations, all physical instances and all
       meta-information about file are deleted.  For more information on ARC URL syntax please read  "Protocols,
       Uniform Resource Locators (URL) and Extensions Supported in ARC" [NORDUGRID-TECH-7]

       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 arcrm performs like it were called with all those URLs as arguments.

       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

       arcrm gsiftp://example.com/grid/file.dat

NOTES

       Lack of recursion is a feature.

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), arcrename(1)

arcrm version 7.0.0                                 June 2025                                           ARCRM(1)