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.TH ARCRM 1 "2018-11-26" "NorduGrid ARC 5.4.3" "NorduGrid Users Manual"

.SH NAME

arcrm \- delete files

.SH DESCRIPTION

The
.B arcrm
command deletes files on grid storage elements and indexing services.

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B arcrm [options] url [url ...]

.SH OPTIONS

.IP "\fB-f\fR, \fB--force\fR"
remove logical file name registration even if not all physical instances were removed
.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 [url ...]\fR"
the location(s) to delete
.LP

.SH EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

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

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

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

.SH NOTES

Lack of recursion is a feature.

.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 arcmkdir(1),
.BR arcrename (1),