XCLOUD v1.0.15 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.

The following improvements have been introduced in this XCLOUD release:

   (001)  Added support for "CREATEVERSION", "LISTVERSIONS" and "RESTOREVERSIONS" operations.

   (002)  A new "-M" switch will display the underlying HTTP protocol messages for the given operation.

XCLOUD v1.00.15:  Cloud Storage command-line tool.  (2011-07-17)
Copyright (c) 2010 EMC Corporation.  Use '--license' to read the license terms.

Usage: XCLOUD [ ]
must 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
     SHARE          generate a shareable URL for an object
     GETACCESS      display access grant info for an object
     SETACCESS      set an access grant for an object
     DELETEACCESS   remove an access grant from an object
     GETMETA        display metadata info for an object
     SETMETA        set a metadata pair for an object
     DELETEMETA     delete a metadata pair from an object
     RETAIN         enable/disable retention for an object
     EXPIRE         enable/disable automatic expiration for an object
     LISTVERSIONS   list all versions of an object
     CREATEVERSION  create a new version of an object
     RESTOREVERSION restore a version of an object
     GETINFO        return information about an object
     GETCLOUDINFO   display information about the cloud
     GETTOOLINFO    display information about this tool
may be any of the following:
  -h, --help        display this help and exit
      --license     display the license terms and exit
  -a=

      cloud access point (hostname or network address)
  -P=      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 or local object already exists
  -i=      the given object's identifier
  -V=      the versioned object's identifier (for RESTORE operations)
  -I                display object identifiers
  -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 (default)
      --group       add the group access grant
  -k=       the object's metadata keyname
  -v=      the object's metadata value
      --listable    make the metadata pair listable
  -t=       retention or expiration period for the given object
  -T=       retention or expiration endtime (UTC) for the given object
                       where is of the form "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ"
      --enable      enable retention or automatic expiration (default)
      --disable     disable retention or automatic expiration
  -u                generate a shareable (pre-signed) URL for the remote object
      --url         display a shareable (pre-signed) URL for the remote object
  -e=       expiration period for the pre-signed (shareable) URL
  -R                invoke the given operation recursively
  -Q                suppress all normal messages
  -S                suppress all error messages
  -D                display debug messages
  -M                display low-level HTTP protocol messages