HSI Reference Manual Hierarchical Storage Interface, Version 8.3, 10 July 2020 HSI Reference Manual Hierarchical Storage Interface, Version 8.3, 10 July 2020 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................................... vi 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 1 2. Authentication Methods .................................................................................................................... 2 3. Restricted TCP ports and restricted Mover hosts ............................................................................. 3 3.1. HSI port ranges and reserved ports ........................................................................................ 3 3.2. HSI restricted Mover hosts .................................................................................................... 4 4. HSI command line ............................................................................................................................. 5 5. FTP compatibility and differences .................................................................................................... 8 6. Path names ......................................................................................................................................... 9 6.1. Syntax for renaming files in put and get commands ............................................................ 9 6.2. Using put and get commands with just one pathname ......................................................... 9 6.3. Using UNIX PIPES ................................................................................................................ 9 6.4. UNIX-style pathname prefixes ............................................................................................. 10 7. HSI Checksum Feature ................................................................................................................... 11 7.1. Checksum hashing algorithms .............................................................................................. 11 7.2. Transfer Rate Performance Impact ...................................................................................... 11 7.3. New Commands ................................................................................................................... 11 7.4. New hsirc options ................................................................................................................. 12 7.5. New Command Line Options for put and get commands ................................................... 12 8. Access Control Lists (ACLs) .......................................................................................................... 13 9. Using PIPEs for input and output ................................................................................................... 15 9.1. Using stdin and stdout for input/output ............................................................................... 15 9.2. Using UNIX PIPE commands for input and output ............................................................ 16 10. HSI COS selection with and without piped files .......................................................................... 18 11. Customizing the HSI prompt ........................................................................................................ 20 12. Using HSI with multiple HPSS systems ....................................................................................... 21 12.1. Using HSI to access multiple HPSS systems .................................................................... 21 12.2. Commands used for Multi-HPSS HSI Sessions ................................................................ 23 12.3. Example scenario for a multi-HPSS session ...................................................................... 23 13. HSI environment variables ............................................................................................................ 28 14. HPSS.conf settings (client) ........................................................................................................... 31 15. HSI special topics .......................................................................................................................... 32 15.1. How to pipe an HPSS file into "cmp", "head", "less", etc. ................................................ 32 15.2. How to retrieve a set of files in optimal tape/position order ............................................. 33 15.3. Working with pathnames containing special characters .................................................... 33 16. HSI keywords ................................................................................................................................ 35 17. HSI commands (alphabetical list) ................................................................................................. 37 18. HSI commands (by function) ........................................................................................................ 41 18.1. HPSS File and Directory Commands ................................................................................ 41 18.2. Local File and Directory Commands ................................................................................. 42 18.3. Access Control List (ACL) Commands ............................................................................. 42 18.4. Accounting/Metadata Commands ...................................................................................... 42 18.5. File and Directory Administration Commands .................................................................. 43 18.6. Multi-HPSS Commands ..................................................................................................... 43 18.7. HSI Settings Commands and Keywords ............................................................................ 44 18.8. Miscellaneous HSI Commands .......................................................................................... 45 19. Command reference ....................................................................................................................... 46 iii HSI Reference Manual 19.1. ADOPT command .............................................................................................................. 46 19.2. ANNOTATE command ...................................................................................................... 46 19.3. BELL command ................................................................................................................. 48 19.4. CD command ...................................................................................................................... 48 19.5. CDLS command ................................................................................................................. 50 19.6. CGET command ................................................................................................................. 51 19.7. CHACCT command ........................................................................................................... 53 19.8. CHACL command .............................................................................................................. 54 19.9. CHCOS command .............................................................................................................. 55 19.10. CHGRP command ............................................................................................................ 57 19.11. CHMOD command ........................................................................................................... 58 19.12. CHOWN command .......................................................................................................... 60 19.13. CLOSE command ............................................................................................................. 61 19.14. COPIES keyword ............................................................................................................. 62 19.15. COSID keyword ............................................................................................................... 62 19.16. CP and CCP commands ................................................................................................... 63 19.17. CPUT command ............................................................................................................... 65 19.18. CRENAME command ...................................................................................................... 66 19.19. DEBUG command ............................................................................................................ 68 19.20. DIRn keyword .................................................................................................................. 69 19.21. DU command .................................................................................................................... 69 19.22. DUMP command .............................................................................................................. 70 19.23. ECHO command ............................................................................................................... 71 19.24. END command ................................................................................................................