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Official StrongLink Command Line Interface Guide#

file version: 19 Oct 2022

current software versions: slk version 3.3.76

Warning

The available official PDF documentation of slk is outdated. We recommend using the HTML documentation at https://docs.dkrz.de

The official StrongLink Command Line Interface (=slk) Guide is for DKRZ users only. Please do not distribute it publicly. It can downloaded here (Login with DKRZ account required): https://gitlab.dkrz.de/hsm-tools/slk_pdf_doc/

The document is also available on Levante/Lustre: /work/ka1209/public/slk_cli_doc

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