Hi Stephan, It looks like you just want to do a local copy (i.e. from one disk to another). If so, xrdcp is not appropriate for this. Your best bet is either cp (which you would invoke one ay a time but should be fast). Andy On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Stephan Zimmer wrote: > Dear XrootD˙˙lers, > i˙˙m trying to use the xrdcp command using the infiles argument˙˙ but i˙˙m completely lost˙˙ > suppose I have a list of files from a server, and it˙˙s absolute path (excl. the server / root-shebang) is stored in ˙˙files_to_copy˙˙, can I trigger some sort of intelligent copy? If so, how does that work˙˙ I can˙˙t find much documentation on the use of xrdcp ˙˙infiles˙˙ can you provide *any example?*? > > my alternative is to loop over the files_to_copy and run xrdcp on each file˙˙ but that seems silly and it˙˙s pretty slow... > > Specifically, I have stuff like this > > /path/dir1/file1 > /path/dir2/file2 > /path/dir3/file3 > > etc. > > and that˙˙s supposed to go to > > $(pwd)/file1 > $(pwd)/file2 > $(pwd)/file3 > > what˙˙s the most efficient way to do this? > > Thanks! > -Stephan > > ˙˙ > Stephan Zimmer > DPNC, University of Geneva > 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet > CH-1211 Genčve 4 > > mobile: +41766133052 > > > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1 > ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1