XCLOUD v1.0.1 cloud storage command-line tool is now available

XCLOUD is a command-line tool that may be used with a variety of cloud-based storage platforms to perform various data-access operations such as uploading or downloading files, scanning containers, and modifying metadata or access permissions. For a complete list of supported operations, simply invoke the XCLOUD tool with the "--help" parameter.

XCLOUD has been implemented in the widely popular PHP programming language for maximum portability across Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OSX and other environments.  The latest release of XCLOUD may always be obtained from http://code.google.com/p/xcloudtool/

We welcome your feedback on XCLOUD!  Please send any questions, comments, bug fixes or new feature requests to brian.olson@emc.com.

XCLOUD v1.00.1:  Cloud Storage command-line tool.
Copyright (c) 2010 EMC Corporation.  Use '--license' to read the license terms.

Usage: XCLOUD [OPTIONS]
Where [OPTIONS] may be:
  -h, --help        display this help and exit
      --license     display the license terms and exit
  -o=     perform a cloud operation, may be one of the following:
                       SCAN           display contents of a directory object
                       QUERY          query objects matching the given keyname
                       UPLOAD         upload the given file
                       DOWNLOAD       download the given file
                       APPEND         append the given file to a remote object
                       RENAME         rename an object
                       DELETE         delete an object
                       GETMETA        display metadata info for an object
                       SETMETA        set a metadata pair for an object
                       DELETEMETA     delete a metadata pair of an object
                       GETACCESS      display access grant info for an object
                       SETACCESS      set an access grant for an object
                       DELETEACCESS   remove an access grant for an object
                       GETINFO        return information about an object
                       GETCLOUDINFO   display information about the cloud
                       GETTOOLINFO    display information about this tool
  -a=

      cloud access point (hostname or network address)
  -t=      cloud transport protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) or port number
  -b=     block transfer size
  -c=   the given object's content type
  -l=      the local object's filename
  -r=          the remote object's name
  -n=          the remote object's new name (for RENAME operations)
      --force       overwrite if remote object or local file already exists
  -i=      the given object's identifier
  -k=       the object's metadata keyname
  -v=      the object's metadata value
      --listable    make the metadata pair listable
  -g=       add the access grant to the given object
  -p=    add the access permission for the given object
                       where may be FULL, READ, WRITE or NONE
      --user        add the USER access grant
      --group       add the GROUP access grant
  -u                generate a pre-signed (shareable) URL for the remote object
      --url         display a pre-signed (shareable) URL for the remote object
  -e=       expiration period for the pre-signed (shareable) URL
  -q                suppress all normal messages
  -s                suppress all error messages
  -d                display debug messages