dav CLI

If webdav4 is installed with fsspec package, dav CLI similar to aws s3 is also available to make it easier for the interaction.

If not, you can install it as follows:

pip install -U "webdav4[fsspec]"

Common arguments

  • --endpoint-url: Path to the server/hostname. Can also be specified through WEBDAV_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable (and the url can contain password and user information as well).

    export WEBDAV_ENDPOINT_URL="https://user:password@webdav.server.org/remote.php/dav/files/user"

  • --user: (Optional) Provide username of the account. Can also be specified in the url itself in --endpoint-url or through environment variable.

  • --password: (Optional) Provide password for the account. Can also be specified in the url itself in --endpoint-url or through environment variable.

  • --verbose: Provides more information and traceback on error.

  • --help: Shows help message and exits.

Note that all the arguments are expected to follow after dav command. Example: dav --user user ls.

Examples:

Listing files

dav ls

Listing files recursively

dav ls -R

Listing files recursively to certain depth

dav ls -R -L2

Download a file or a directory from remote

dav cp dav://path/to/file file dav cp -R dav://path/to/file file

Upload a file or a directory to remote

dav cp file dav://path/to/file dav cp -R dir dav://path/to/dir

Copy a file or a directory within remote

dav cp dav://path/to/file dav://path/to/file2 dav cp -R dav://path/to/dir1 dav://path/to/dir2

Note: mv works similarly to cp in both upload and download cases, as it does not remove files, except when between remotes.

Move a file or a directory within remote

dav mv dav://path/to/file dav://path/to/file2 dav mv -R dav://path/to/dir1 dav://path/to/dir2

Delete a file or a directory

dav rm dav://path/to/file dav rm -R dav://path/to/dir dav rm -R path/dir

Create a directory

dav mkdir path/dir dav mkdir dav://path/dir

Count files and determine total size

dav du path/dir

Print contents of a file

dav cat dav://path/to/file

Periodically sync files

Similar to aws s3 sync and uses file sizes and modified times to sync intelligently between local-remote, remote-local and local-remote.

dav sync dir dav://path/to/dir  # local to remote
dav sync dav://path/to/dir dir  # remote to local
dav sync dav://path/dir1 dav://path/dir2  # remote-remote

Run multiple commands at once

dav run commands.txt  # or,
cat commands.txt | dav run -

commands.txt can look something like follows:

cp dir/dir2 dav://path/to/dir
mv dav://path/dir2 dav://path/dir3
# list all files (comments are supported)
ls -R
du