Cadaver

A command-line WebDAV client for Unix.

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 client and the Samba Project’s smbclient. 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.

Usage

Usage: cadaver [-trp[-r file][-p host[:port]]][-V][-h] URL

Option	Description
-t, --tolerant	Allow cd/open into non-WebDAV enabled collection; use if the server or proxy 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.

Commands

Command	Description
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

.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 are ignored.