cadaver - Man Page

A command-line WebDAV client for Unix.

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

cadaver [-trp[-r file][-p host[:port]]][-V][-h] http://hostname[:port]/path

Description

cadaver supports file upload, download, on-screen display, namespace operations (move and copy), collection creation and deletion, and locking operations.

Its operation is similar to the standard BSD ftp(1) client and the Samba Project's smbclient(1). A user familiar with these tools should be quite comfortable with cadaver.

cadaver supports automatically logging in to servers requiring authentication via a .netrc file (similar to ftp(1) - see section "THE .netrc FILE" below).

Options

-t,  --tolerant

Allow cd/open into non-WebDAV enabled collection; use if the server or proxy server has WebDAV compliance problems.

-r,  --rcfile=file

Use this rcfile rather than the default of ~/.cadaverrc

-p,  --proxy=host[:port]

Connect using the proxy host "host" and optional proxy port "port".

-V,  --version

Display version information and exit.

-h,  --help

Display this help message and exit.

Command Reference

ls [path]

List contents of current [or other] collection

cd path

Change to specified collection

pwd

Display name of current collection

put local [remote]

Upload local file

get remote [local]

Download remote resource

mget remote...

Download many remote resources

mput local...

Upload many local files

edit resource

Edit given resource

less remote...

Display remote resource through pager

mkcol remote...

Create remote collection(s)

cat remote...

Display remote resource(s)

delete remote...

Delete non-collection resource(s)

rmcol remote...

Delete remote collections and ALL contents

copy source... dest

Copy resource(s) from source to dest

move source... dest

Move resource(s) from source to dest

lock resource

Lock given resource

unlock resource

Unlock given resource

discover resource

Display lock information for resource

steal resource

Steal lock token for resource

showlocks

Display list of owned locks

propnames res

Names of properties defined on resource

chexec [+|-] remote

Change isexecutable property of resource

propget res [propname]

Retrieve properties of resource

propset res propname value

Set property on resource

set [option] [value]

Set an option, or display options

open URL

Open connection to given URL

close

Close current connection

quit

Exit program

unset [option] [value]

Unsets or clears value from option.

lcd [directory]

Change local working directory

lls [options]

Display local directory listing

lpwd

Print local working directory

logout

Logout of authentication session

help [command]

Display help message

THE .netrc FILE

The file ~/.netrc may be used to automatically login to a server requiring authentication. The following tokens (separated by spaces, tabs or newlines) may be used:

machine host

Identify a remote machine host which is compared with the hostname given on the command line or as an argument to the open command. Any subsequent tokens up to the end of file or the next machine or default token are associated with this entry.

default

This is equivalent to the machine token but matches any hostname. Only one default token may be used and it must be after all machine tokens.

login username

Specifies the username to use when logging in to the remote machine.

password string
passwd string

Specifies the password to use when logging in to the remote machine.

Any other tokens (as described in ftp(1)) are ignored.

Examples

cadaver http://dav.example.com/

Connects to the server myserver.example.com, opening the root collection.

cadaver http://zope.example.com:8022/Users/fred/

Connects to the server zope.example.com using port 8022, opening the collection "/Users/fred/".

cadaver https://secure.example.com/

Connects to a server called secure.example.com using SSL.

Files

~/.cadaverrc

Individual user settings that can override cadaver defaults and to script cadaver. Can be changed by the "--rcfile" option.

~/.netrc

Login and initialization information used by the auto-login process. See section "THE .netrc FILE" for details.

Author

Joe Orton <https://github.com/notroj/cadaver>

See Also

ftp(1), smbclient(1)

Referenced By

mount.davfs(8).

October 2022 Unix User Manuals