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There are different tools:

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a_xrdcmd
a_xrdcmd

xrdcmd Client admin tools

xrdcmd is wrapped around xrd.pl. It sets up the environment (LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PERL5LIB), If this environment is set by other means one could call xrd.pl instead of xrdcmd.

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> xrdcmd -s sulky48 dir /glast/mc
DC2
ServiceChallenge
junk

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a_xrdls
a_xrdls

xrdls something similar to ls

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Xrootd does not provide the directory listing (ls) semantics as a file system does. The xrdls is a command line tool that (by default) connects to all glast looks a little bit like an ls. By defaults it loops over all xrootd data servers and list
the directory content obtains a directory listing for each serverof them.

The usage is:
xrdls -l dataServer directory

It is implemented by using the standard unix ls command together with the xrootd preload library.

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> xrdls  /glast/mc
==listing from server sulky02
ServiceChallenge  TonyTest  junk
==listing from server sulky47
DC2  ServiceChallenge  junk
==listing from server sulky48
DC2  ServiceChallenge  TonyTest  junk

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