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 to: https://data.pawsey.org.au:443 public not connected to: https://data.pawsey.org.au:443 aws not connected to: 'ap-southeast-2' pawsey0002 not connected to: https://acacia.pawsey.org.au
New remotes can be added for a Mediaflux server (such as the default portal and public above) or for S3 resources, 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.
portal:>login Username: sean Password: portal:> remote portal authenticated to: https://data.pawsey.org.au/aterm as user=ivec:sean public not connected to: https://data.pawsey.org.au:443
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.txt
put: 1/1 files, errors=0, skipped=0, progress: 100.0% at 1.51 MB/s
portal:/projects/Data Team/remotefolder/>get remotefile.txt
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.txt
200032137 | 3 MB | localfile.txt
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.
portal:/>help Documented commands (type help <topic>): ======================================== cd get info login ls publish quit rmdir delegate help lcd logout mkdir put remote unpublish exit import lls lpwd processes pwd rm portal:/>help info Return information for a remote file or folder Usage: info <filename/folder>