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Applications

The release contains a full xrootd releases and a few other tools. The applications of interest are:

name

Description

xrdcp

transfer files from and to xrootd

xrdls

list directory on all the xrootd servers

xrdprel

run a program under the xrootd preload library (useful for reading fits files)

xrd.pl

command line tool to issue commands to xrootd like, stat a file, checksum a file,...

One think to notice about all the applications is that they are links to a wrapper script. The wrapper script sets the proper environment so that the xrootd authorization libs are found and then runs the proper executable.

Location of the Xrootd Client tools

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Using applications from a different location, e.g.: /usr/local/bin/xrdcp, will most likely not work as they are not able to load the xrootd security libraries.

Applications

The release contains a full xrootd releases and a few other tools. The applications of interest are:

name

Description

xrdcp

transfer files from and to xrootd

xrdls

list directory on all the xrootd servers

xrdprel

run a program under the xrootd preload library (useful for reading fits files)

xrd.pl

command line tool to issue commands to xrootd like, stat a file, checksum a file,...

One think to notice about all the applications is that they are links to a wrapper script. The wrapper script sets the proper environment so that the xrootd authorization libs are found and then runs the proper executable.