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.TH ARCMDKIR 1 "2021-02-24" "NorduGrid ARC 6.10.2" "NorduGrid Users Manual"

.SH NAME

arcmkdir \- create directories

.SH DESCRIPTION

The
.B arcmkdir
command creates directories on grid storage elements and indexing services.

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B arcmkdir [options] url

.SH OPTIONS

.IP "\fB-p\fR, \fB--parents\fR"
make parent directories as needed
.IP "\fB-P\fR, \fB--listplugins\fR"
list the available plugins (protocols supported)
.IP "\fB-t\fR, \fB--timeout\fR=\fIseconds\fR"
timeout in seconds (default 20)
.IP "\fB-z\fR, \fB--conffile\fR=\fIfilename\fR"
configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)
.IP "\fB-d\fR, \fB--debug\fR=\fIdebuglevel\fR"
FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG
.IP "\fB-v\fR, \fB--version\fR"
print version information
.IP "\fB-?\fR, \fB--help\fR"
print help

.SH ARGUMENTS

.IP "\fBurl\fR"
the directory to create
.LP

.SH EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

The
.B arcmkdir
command creates directories on grid storage elements and indexing services.
If the parent directory does not exist and
.B -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
.B 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
.B arcmkdir
performs like it were called multiple times - once for every URL.

Depending on the installed libraries (check with
.B -P
), the following protocols may be used: file  (file://  prefix  may  be
omitted), http, https, httpg, ftp, gsiftp, srm, root.

.SH FILES

.TP
.B ~/.arc/client.conf
Some options can be given default values by specifying them in the
ARC client configuration file. By using the
.B --conffile
option a different configuration file can be used than the default.

.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

.TP
.B 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.

.TP
.B 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.

.TP
.B 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 \fB$ARC_LOCATION\fR/lib/arc (\\ in Windows).

.SH EXAMPLE

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

.SH COPYRIGHT

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

.SH 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

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR arccp (1),
.BR arcls (1),
.BR arcrename (1),
.BR arcrm (1),