GFAL-CHMOD(1)

💅 gfal-chmod — the glow-up page

okay bestie, welcome to gfal-chmod(1) from the General Commands Manual section 🎀 this is the little tool that changes the permissions of a file, and yes she ate 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

gfal-chmod — change the permissions of a file 🦋 that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gfal-chmod [ OPTION ]...  MODE URL

like. options first, then the MODE you want, then the URL you're blessing with it. order matters, no cap 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

gfal-chmod changes the permissions of a file. literally that. she takes your MODE, she takes your URL, and she makes it happen ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

the full menu, no skips, every single one, periodt:

• -h, --help — shows you the help about the command 🫶 your little tutorial moment
• -V, --version — outputs version information and then dips, exits immediately 💨
• -v, --verbose — verbose mode, she's a talker. repeat it up to 3 times for the most verbose mode — three -vs is her max yapping setting 😭
• -D, --definition DEFINITION — defines properties for gfal2. definitions have this exact syntax: "CONFIG_GROUP:KEY=VALUE" — colon between group and key, equals before the value, don't freestyle it bestie 🎀
• -t, --timeout TIMEOUT — global timeout for the execution of the command. the command gets interrupted if time expires before it finishes. Note: a grace period of 30 seconds is given to the global timeout — so she gets a lil extra runway 🛫
• -E, --cert CERT — user certificate. and listen, this one is conditional: it only takes effect after the X509_USER_PROXY environment variable and the default /tmp/x509up_uid` -u`` location cannot provide a certificate. so like, she's the backup plan's backup plan 💀
• --key KEY — user private key 🔑
• -4 — forces Gfal2 to use IPv4 addresses only. (option valid only for GridFTP protocol)
• -6 — forces Gfal2 to use IPv6 addresses only. (option valid only for GridFTP protocol)
• -C, --client-info CLIENT_INFO — provide custom client-side information 📋
• --log-file LOG_FILE — writes Gfal2 library logs to the given file location 🌈

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

look at her go:

gfal-chmod 0755 file:///tmp/original

0755 mode, file:///tmp/original url, done. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/gfal2.d/* — all configuration files in this directory affect the behavior of the underlying gfal2. yes, all of them. she reads the whole group chat 📁✨

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

the girlies (and guys) who built her, absolute legends, credit where credit is due:

• Duarte Meneses <duarte.meneses@cern.ch>
• Adrien Devresse <adrien.devresse@cern.ch>
• Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon <alejandro.alvarez.ayllon@cern.ch>
• Andrea Manzi <andrea.manzi@cern.ch>
• Mihai Patrascoiu <mihai.patrascoiu@cern.ch>
• Joao Lopes <joao.pedro.batista.lopes@cern.ch>

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, go say hi to all of them:

gfal-cat(1), gfal-chmod(1), gfal-copy(1), gfal-ls(1), gfal-mkdir(1), gfal-rename(1), gfal-rm(1), gfal-save(1), gfal-stat(1), gfal-sum(1), gfal-token(1), gfal-xattr(1), gfal-evict(1), gfal-bringonline(1), gfal-archivepoll(1)

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and that's the page!! 💖 this was v1.7.1, from March 2022, and she's still serving. k bye bestie, go chmod something responsibly 🧚✨