Introduction

mcia-irods-utils is a set of commandline utilities for iRODS iCommands.

Prerequisites

To use mcia-irods-utils, you need:

• Python 2.6+
• Bash shell
• iRODS iCommands installed and accessible in your PATH

Install

Untar mcia-irods-utils to some temporary directory. From this directory, you can run:

python setup.py install [--prefix=</some/prefix>]

By default, install script will make the installation in /usr/local.

In case you provided a prefix, make sure /some/prefix/bin is in your PATH and /some/prefix/lib/python2.x/site-packages in your PYTHONPATH (replace python2.x by the version of your Python interpreter).

Use

Wildcards Commands

Some iRODS iCommands have been wrapped to allow server-side wildcards to be used in a similar way than shell expansion.

• ilsw
• igetw
• irmw
• icpw
• imvw

Disk usage

• idu

Replica number verification

• irepl-check - check and eventually repair file replicas number

Metadata

• imeta-coll - manage metadata on collections, eventually recursively

Data extraction

• iextract - extract data and metadata from iRODS, for backup or migration