What is gcp and where can I find it? [closed]

Question

I currently try to install a software package (unfortunately the support is very unhelpful for various reasons). The software has an install script which works quite well, however the script checks for the existance of some tools before it starts the deployment on the cluster nodes.

The script uses gcp (it looks like a group copy) - I could not find it via google or rpmfind. Does anyone know this program?

edit (sorry for the bad title in the first try, seems I should have more coffee before posting): OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 The Software I'm trying to install is the "off instrument software for the FLX sequencer"

the relevant part of the install script reads:

             cluster)
                    echo "INSTALLING TO A CLUSTER"

                    #
                    #       Install to system RPM location
                    #
                    RPMSRC=`find ./ -name gsRunProcessor-openmpi-*.rpm`
                    if [ "$RPMSRC" != "" ]
                    then
                            # Copy to all nodes
                            gcp $RPMSRC /tmp
                            if [ $? -ne 0 ]
                            then
                                    echo "Call to 'gcp' failed"
                                    return 1
                            fi
                            # Install to all nodes
                            gsh rpm -Uvh --force --nocontexts /tmp/$RPMSRC 2>/dev/null
                            status=$?
                            if [ $status -ne 0 ]
                            then
                                    echo "Call to gsh failed"
                                    return 1
                            fi

                            # Remove file from every node
                            gsh rm -f /tmp/$RPMSRC

                            # Install to head node
                            rpm -Uvh --force --nocontexts $RPMSRC 2>/dev/null
                            status=$?
                            if [ $status -ne 0 ]
                            then
                                    echo "Call to 'rpm' command for $RPMSRC failed"
                                    return 1
                            fi

                    else
                            echo "Could not find gsRunProcessor-openmpi rpm file"
                            return 1
                    fi

                    rpm -Uvh --force --nocontexts gsRunProcessorManager-*.rpm 2>/dev/null
                    status=$?
                    if [ $status -ne 0 ]
                    then
                            echo "Call to 'rpm' command for gsRunProcessorManager failed"
                            return 1
                    fi

                    rpm -Uvh --force --nocontexts gsReporter-*.rpm 2>/dev/null
                    status=$?
                    if [ $status -ne 0 ]
                    then
                            echo "Call to 'rpm' command for gsReporter failed"
                            return 1
                    fi

                    rpm -Uvh --force --nocontexts gsSupportTool-*.rpm 2>/dev/null
                    status=$?
                    if [ $status -ne 0 ]
                    then
                            echo "Call to 'rpm' command for gsSupportTool failed"
                            return 1
                    fi
                    ;;

Answer 1

That code snippit is from GridFTP. gcp simply needs to be available and in your PATH, but those are specific to your site. Most clusters/Grid systems have a special location for the Grid utilities. Contact your cluster admin or your local GridFTP admin for details.

Answer 2

gcp is the GNU version of cp. You can find it using:

where gcp

You should be able to use cp instead, unless your script is using one of the few features of gcp that isn't in cp. I don't know of any such features...

Specifically for your case:

RPMSRC=`find ./ -name gsRunProcessor-openmpi-*.rpm`
if [ "$RPMSRC" != "" ]
    then
        # Copy to all nodes
        gcp $RPMSRC /tmp

You're setting the variable $RPMSRC using the find command. Then you're coyping all of the files that find found and you stored in $RPMSRC to /tmp using:

gcp $RPMSRC /tmp

The rpm command called by gsh uses these files:

gsh rpm -Uvh --force --nocontexts /tmp/$RPMSRC 2>/dev/null
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

And when it's done with them it removes them:

# Remove file from every node
gsh rm -f /tmp/$RPMSRC

The actual installation to all nodes is done with the rpm command.

Answer 3

You can find several different software packages called gsh on the net. Some are, for example, just wrappers for ssh to execute commands on multilple hosts. I could be that your script uses sth like that (the comments in the script look like it is); if so, gsh and also gcp should be packed with your software. So my guess would be that you are calling the script with sth missing in your PATH or from an wrong location or similar. - Hard to tell with just a part of the script and no knowlege about the software you are trying to install.

Answer 4

"gcp is the GNU version of cp"

No, it is not.

the g in gcp stands for Goffi, and the full name is Goffi's CoPier.

The current home page in English for gcp is at Gcp/en and the source code can be downloaded from the Goffi FTP server

One useful feature of gcp when copying very large files is the "transfer progression indication".