The Globus Command Line Interface (CLI) is an alternative to the Globus website which enables one to interact with Globus (endpoints, tasks, etc.) using the command line.
Installation
This can be done by following these instructions. We recommend that you install pipx and Globus CLI in a virtual environment.
If you do choose to use a virtualenv, remember to activate it before trying to use any globus commands and deactivate it when you are done.
Using the CLI
This page presents a comprehensive list of commands that can be used with the Globus CLI.
Transfer Example/Walkthrough
Here is an example of a file transfer that uses a virtualenv (which has already been set up):
After entering the globus login command, copy the supplied url into a browser, click 'Continue', click 'Allow', copy and paste the authorization code, and hit enter. You should then see something like this:
You have successfully logged in to the Globus CLI!
You can check your primary identity with
globus whoami
For information on which of your identities are in session use
globus session show
Logout of the Globus CLI with
globus logout
Getting Endpoint IDs
Before you make the transfer, you need to find the IDs of the source and destination endpoints. This can be done with the following command (or a variation of it):
The final term of this command can be any of the following:
administered-by-me
my-endpoints
my-gcp-endpoints
recently-used
in-use
shared-by-me
shared-with-me
Once you find the endpoints you need (in this case we want to transfer a file from BrownU_OscarGrouch_GDrive to BrownU_CCV_Oscar), set up your source_ep and dest_ep values using the IDs of the endpoints (these IDs are fake, so be sure to copy from the system output):
Transfer
Finally, transfer the file using the following command:
This command transfers a file named file1.txt to the destination endpoint (its name in the destination will be mynewfile.txt).
In order to have the timestamp for mynewfile.txt match the latest modification of file1.txt rather than the time of the transfer, you can add --preserve-mtime to the end of the line (run the line below instead of the one above):
