chirp_get(1)

💖 chirp_get — bestie edition 💖

okay so welcome to chirp_get(1), part of the Cooperative Computing Tools (iykyk). this is the manual page, but make it make sense. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

chirp_get — grab a single file off a Chirp server and yeet it onto your local machine 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

chirp_get [options] <hostname[:port]> <remotefile> <localfile>

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically chirp_get is the tool for copying one single file from a Chirp server down to your local storage. one file. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

it's the quick-and-simple way to do it: hand it a <hostname[:port]> plus a remote <path>, and it writes the goods into a local file called <localfile>. no drama, no ceremony, just the file.

and here's the iconic part — chirp_get can also stream data, which is so useful when you're piping stuff around in a shell pipeline. main character energy fr fr. 🧚

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -a, --auth=<flag> — require this authentication mode, no substitutes bestie 🔐
• -d, --debug=<flag> — turn on debugging for this subsystem, for when you need to see everything 👀
• -t, --timeout=<time> — timeout for failure. the default is 3600s (yes, a whole hour, she's patient) ⏰
• -i, --tickets=<files> — a comma-delimited list of tickets to use for authentication 🎟️
• -v, --version — show program version ✨
• -h, --help — show help text 🫶

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✨ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ✨

• CHIRP_CLIENT_TICKETS — comma delimited list of tickets to authenticate with. it's literally the same thing as -i. same energy, different font. 💜

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✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

• on success, returns zero 🎉
• on failure, returns non-zero 😭

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

to copy a single remote file using chirp_get, you do this:

% chirp_get server1.somewhere.edu /mydata/mydata.dat /tmp/mydata.dat

to get a single remote archive file and untar it at the same time using chirp_get — multitasking queen 👑:

% chirp_get myhost.somewhere.edu /mydata/archive.tar.gz - | tar xvzf

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details. 📜

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation
• Chirp User Manual
• chirp(1) chirp_status(1) chirp_fuse(1) chirp_get(1) chirp_put(1) chirp_stream_files(1) chirp_distribute(1) chirp_benchmark(1) chirp_server(1)

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💖 this was CCTools 8.0.0 DEVELOPMENT, chirp_get(1). go get that file. slay. 🌸🦋💅