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GLOBUS DELETE

NAME

globus delete - Submit a delete task (asynchronous)

SYNOPSIS

globus delete [OPTIONS] ENDPOINT_ID[:PATH]

DESCRIPTION

Submits an asynchronous task that deletes files and/or directories on the target endpoint.

globus delete has two modes. Single target, which deletes one file or one directory, and batch, which takes in several lines to delete multiple files or directories. See "Batch Input" below for more information.

Symbolic links are never followed - only unlinked (deleted).

Batch Input

If you give a SOURCE_PATH without the --batch flag, you will submit a single-file or single-directory delete task. This has behavior similar to rm and rm -r, across endpoints.

Using --batch, globus delete can submit a task which deletes multiple files or directories. The value for --batch can be a file to read from, or the character - which will read from stdin. From either the file or stdin, each line is treated as a path to a file or directory to delete, respecting quotes.

Lines are of the form PATH

Note that unlike 'globus transfer' --recursive is not an option at the per line level, instead, if given with the original command, all paths that point to directories will be recursively deleted.

Empty lines and comments beginning with '#' are ignored.

Batch only requires an ENDPOINT on the "base" command, but you may pass an ENPDOINT:PATH to prefix all the paths read in the batch with that path.

Automatic Endpoint Activation

This command requires all endpoints it uses to be activated. It will attempt to auto-activate any endpoints that are not active, but if auto-activation fails, you will need to manually activate the endpoint. See 'globus endpoint activate' for more details.

OPTIONS

--skip-activation-check

Submit the task even if the endpoint(s) aren’t currently activated.

--deadline [%Y-%m-%d|%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S|%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]

Set a deadline for this to be canceled if not completed by.

--label TEXT

Set a label for this task.

--submission-id TEXT

Task submission ID, as generated by globus task generate-submission-id. Used for safe resubmission in the presence of network failures.

--notify {on,off,succeeded,failed,inactive}

Comma separated list of task events which notify by email. 'on' and 'off' may be used to enable or disable notifications for all event types. Otherwise, use 'succeeded', 'failed', or 'inactive'

--dry-run

Don’t actually submit the task, print submission data instead

--batch FILENAME

Accept a batch of source/dest path pairs from a file. Use the special - value to read from stdin; otherwise opens the file from the argument and passes through lines from that file. Uses SOURCE_ENDPOINT_ID and DEST_ENDPOINT_ID as passed on the commandline. Commandline paths are still allowed and are used as prefixes to the batchmode inputs.

--enable-globs / --no-enable-globs

Enable expansion of *, ?, and [ ] characters in the last component of file paths, unless they are escaped with a preceeding backslash, \ [default: no-enable-globs]

--star-silent, --unsafe

Don’t prompt when the trailing character is a "*". Implicit in --batch

-f, --ignore-missing

Don’t throw errors if the file or dir is absent

-r, --recursive

Recursively delete dirs

-v, --verbose

Control level of output

-h, --help

Show this message and exit.

-F, --format [unix|json|text]

Output format for stdout. Defaults to text

--jmespath, --jq TEXT

A JMESPath expression to apply to json output. Forces the format to be json processed by this expression

--map-http-status TEXT

Map HTTP statuses to any of these exit codes: 0,1,50-99. e.g. "404=50,403=51"

EXAMPLES

Delete a single file.

$ ep_id=ddb59af0-6d04-11e5-ba46-22000b92c6ec
$ globus delete $ep_id:~/myfile.txt

Delete a directory recursively.

$ ep_id=ddb59af0-6d04-11e5-ba46-22000b92c6ec
$ globus delete $ep_id:~/mydir --recursive

Use the batch input method to transfer multiple files and or dirs.

$ ep_id=ddb59af0-6d04-11e5-ba46-22000b92c6ec
$ globus delete $ep_id --batch - --recursive
~/myfile1.txt
~/myfile2.txt
~/myfile3.txt
~/mygodatadir
<EOF>

Submit a deletion task and get back the task ID for use in globus task wait:

$ ep_id=ddb59af0-6d04-11e5-ba46-22000b92c6ec
$ task_id="$(globus delete $ep_id:~/mydir --recursive     --jmespath 'task_id' --format unix)"
$ echo "Waiting on $task_id"
$ globus task wait "$task_id"

EXIT STATUS

0 on success.

1 if a network or server error occurred, unless --map-http-status has been used to change exit behavior on http error codes.

2 if the command was used improperly.

3 if the command was used on the wrong type of object, e.g. a collection command used on an endpoint.

4 if the command has authentication or authorization requirements which were not met, as in ConsentRequired errors or missing logins.

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