Shorthand Commands

These commands are aimed at frequent users of a DIRAC UI, especially if you experience latency issues, as this setup offers a caching mechanism. They do require some initial setup.

1. Before using any DIRAC UI commands you need to set up your DIRAC UI environment and get a proxy:

   $ source diracos/diracosrc
   $ dirac-proxy-init -g [your DIRAC group]
   

2. Setting up your defaults.

   You only need to do this once:

   $ dconfig --minimal
   

   This will create a skeleton config file in ~/.dirac/dcommands.conf

   Now edit the configuration file using your details. If you are a member of more than one VO, you might want to set up different profiles for each. Your current group will be automatically picked up from your proxy.

   [global]
   default_profile = myvo_user
   
   [myvo_user]
   group_name = myvo_user
   home_dir = /myvo/user/m/mydir
   default_se = MYHOME-SE-disk
   
   [my2vo_prod]
   group_name = my2vo_prod
   home_dir = /my2vo/prod/mc
   default_se = ANOTHER-SE-disk
   

   Now you are set up to use the DIRAC short commands. For a full list of what is available, please see the Shorthand Command Reference section.