Globus CLI Commands

Once you have logged in to Globus in a shell, you will be able to issue Globus CLI commands. Each CLI command begins with globus and the command name, possibly followed by a sub-command name and/or flags and arguments. To see more information about a specific CLI command, pass the --help flag to the command.

You can see a list of all Globus CLI commands by issuing the command:

globus list-commands

There are over four dozen commands, many of which are in groups containing a parent command and multiple sub-commands. The coming sections will discuss several groups of the most useful commands. If you need more information on any CLI command, Globus provides in-depth reference documentation.