PSHELL Quickstart

Requirements

Your system must have Python 3.6.x or greater installed, and boto3 if accessing S3 resources such as acacia or aws.

A prepackaged python executable for pshell is available from here.

Running

From the command line, you can start pshell as follows:

python3 pshell

Remotes

pshell maintains a list of registered remote servers and the current connection state. The active remote is shown in the left part of pshell's command prompt:

portal:> remote
portal [ not connected ] *
public [ not connected ]
aws    [ not connected ]

You can query the configuration of a particular remote as follows:

portal:/>remote portal --info
name = portal
type = mflux
protocol = https
server = data.pawsey.org.au
port = 443
domain = ivec

New remotes can be added for an additional Mediaflux server (similar to the default portal and public) or for an S3 resource. For further information, see: pshell and S3 remotes.

Logging in

Authenticate to a remote using the appropriate credentials. In the case of the data portal it will be your Pawsey credentials. In the case of an S3 resource it will be your key and secret pair. If the login was successful, the connection status of the remote will be updated.

portal:>login
Username: sean
Password:

portal:/>remote
portal [ authenticated ] *
public [ not connected ]
aws    [ not connected ]

You can now navigate (cd, ls) and transfer files (put, get) between your local filesystem and your remote storage resource.

Command syntax

The command line client implements a subset of the standard SFTP commands.

Remote filesystem commands: cd, ls, pwd, mkdir, rmdir

Local filesystem commands: lcd, lls, lpwd

Transfer commands: get, put

portal:/projects/Data Team>mkdir remotefolder
portal:/projects/Data Team>cd remotefolder/
portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>ls
 200032136  |     12 MB  | remotefile

portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>lcd localfolder
Local: /Users/sean/localfolder
portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>lls
Local folder: /Users/sean/localfolder
    3 MB  | localfile

portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>put localfile
put: 1/1 files, errors=0, skipped=0, progress: 100.0% at 1.51 MB/s
            
portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>get remotefile
get: 1/1 files, errors=0, skipped=0, progress=100.0% at 3.1 MB/s            

portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>ls
 200032136  |    12 MB  | remotefile
 200032137  |     3 MB  | localfile

portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>lls
Local folder: /Users/sean/localfolder
   12 MB  | remotefile
    3 MB  | localfile

Finding out more

To see an overview of the available commands, type "help" at the prompt. You can also type "help <command>" to obtain specific help on the named command.

Standard commands
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cd help lcd logout mkdir put remote unpublish
exit import lls lpwd processes pwd rm whoami 
get info login ls publish quit rmdir 

Specialised commands
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