ARCMKDIR(1)

💖 ARCMKDIR — create directories, bestie 💖

okay so this is arcmkdir, from the User Commands crew, and it's genuinely one of the cutest little ARC tools because all it does is make folders. on grid storage. iconic behaviour, honestly.

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✨ NAME ✨

arcmkdir — create directories 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

💅 Usage 💅

arcmkdir [OPTION...] url

the arcmkdir command creates directories on grid storage elements and catalogs. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it beautifully 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — show help options. your girl is literally telling you how to use her, slay
• -p, --parents — make parent directories as needed. like, if the whole path doesn't exist yet, she'll build the whole thing for you 💖
• -P, --listplugins — list the available plugins (protocols supported). very "let me show you my range" of her
• -t, --timeout=seconds — timeout in seconds (default 20). how long she waits before she's like... ok moving on ⏳
• -z, --conffile=filename — configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf). pick your own config file, main character choice
• --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)
• --anyca — force using both CA certificates configuration for Grid services (typically IGTF) and those provided by OpenSSL. she said why not both 💅
• --allowinsecureconnection — allow TLS connection which failed verification
• -d, --debug=debuglevel — FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG. pick your yap level 🗣️
• -v, --version — print version information

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🦋 EXTENDED DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the arcmkdir command creates directories on grid storage elements and indexing services. she's expanding her reach, periodt ✨

here's the tea tho: if the parent directory does not exist and -p is not specified, then arcmkdir will probably fail — but it depends on the protocol. so like, no promises, it's giving "it depends" 😭

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). so, locked down, just for you, very private, very demure 🔐

💡 plot twist: 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 arcmkdir performs like it were called multiple times — once for every URL. she's doing overtime, and she's not even complaining 🫶

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.

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🌈 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. so like, don't touch unless you have to 🙈
• 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. she'll figure it out but she will be dramatic about it 💀
• 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). yes bestie, Windows gets different separators, that's just how it is 🪟

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⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

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

look at her go. new directory, new era, new me 🌸

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🎀 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. set your defaults once, thank yourself later 💖

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🧚 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 — they genuinely wanna hear from you, no cap 👑

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this beauty is arcrm version 7.2.0, dated September 2026, and she lives under the name ARCMKDIR(1) in the manual. go make some directories, you got this 💅✨🦋