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Hi Paul,

   xrootdfs can provide lists of what is in storage.

Doug

On 05/18/2011 12:37 PM, Paul T. Keener wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of users who have been generating lists of files to run over on the fly.  Now that we have moved to 
> xrootd, that doesn't seem possible.
>
> Is there any script friendly way of generating directory listings?
>
> Ideally, something like
>
>     xrd hn ls '/foo/bar/quux/*.root'
>
> would generate a list like
>
>     root://hn//foo/bar/quux/one.root
>     root://hn//foo/bar/quux/two.root
>     root://hn//foo/bar/quux/three.root
>
> The output that the xrd ls command produces can indeed be hacked to do this, but it isn't pretty.  Something closer to 
> POSIX behavior would be much preferred.
>
> Is there some other way of doing this that I am missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
>     Paul T. Keener
>     Department of Physics and Astronomy
>     University of Pennsylvania