
The edg-gridftp-client package is a thin command line interface on top
of the GridFTP libraries supplied by Globus.  They do, however,
represent a useful set of commands to do basic management of files on
a GridFTP server.  

The commands provided are:

  edg-gridftp-exists   test if a file/directory exists on the server
  edg-gridftp-mkdir    create a directory on the server
  edg-gridftp-rmdir    remove a directory from a server
  edg-gridftp-rm       remove a file from a server
  edg-gridftp-ls       list files/directories on a server
  edg-gridftp-rename   rename a file/directory on a server

The command names in most cases have been named to mimic the standard
Unix commands.  Man pages are available for all of these commands. 

The authorization is handled with a GSI proxy.  (Although, URLs which
give a username/password can be used for access for non-GSI secured
servers.)  The usual default locations are checked for the user's
proxy.  The proxy file can be provided explicitly for all commands for
cases in which the proxy is in a non-standard location or for
processes acting on the behalf of users. 

Installation information for the source tarball can be found in the
INSTALL file.  The binary tarball just needs to be unrolled in a
convenient location.  The source and binary rpms should install
correctly as is. 

The versions which are tagged like v1_2_3 are considered suitable for
general use (although may contain significant bugs; see bugzilla).
All versions with a "t" prefix are tagged test versions and those with
a version like 200210202002 were constructed from the head version.
Use these at your own risk.

The software is covered by the European DataGrid license.  This is an
open source, BSD-style license.  The details can be found in the
provided LICENSE file. 
