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Doug, Yes, xrootdfs can provide listings, but it encourages users to do bulk data access through xrootdfs and that is a Bad Thing. -paul > 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