NETFILES(1) NETFILES(1)
NAME
Netfiles, netfileget, netfileput, netfilestat - network file
access inside acme
SYNOPSIS
Netfiles
netfileget [ -d ] system path
netfileput system path
netfilestat system path
DESCRIPTION
Netfiles presents remote file systems in acme(4) windows.
Each window is named /n/system/path and displays the con-
tents of path on system.
Netfiles reads names of windows to create from the plumbing
channel netfileedit (see plumber(4) and the example section
below). In a netfiles-controlled window, Get, Put, and but-
ton 3 loads work as in normal acme windows. External com-
mands executed with button 2 run in the directory in which
acme was started.
Netfiles uses the helper programs netfileget, netfileput,
and netfilestat to access the remote file systems. The
three first check to see if system is a service in the cur-
rent name space (see intro(4)). If so, they use 9p(1) to
access it. Otherwise, they assume that the system is a net-
work name and use ssh(1)'s sftp to access it.
Netfileget prints the contents of the named path to standard
output. If the -d option is given, then netfileget prints a
single-column listing of path, which must be a directory.
Directories in the listing have `/' appended to their names.
Netfileput writes its standard input to the named path.
Netfilestat prints the file type of path, one of
nonexistent, directory, or file.
EXAMPLES
The following plumbing rule (see plumb(7)) passes /n/ paths
to Netfiles, starting it if necessary.
# /n/ paths go to simulator in acme
kind is text
data matches '[a-zA-Z0-9_\-./]+('$addr')?'
data matches '(/n/[a-zA-Z0-9_\-./]+)('$addr')?'
NETFILES(1) NETFILES(1)
plumb to netfileedit
plumb client Netfiles
SOURCE
/src/cmd/netfiles
SEE ALSO
9p(1), ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), intro(4), acme(4), factotum(4),
BUGS
Netfiles depends on sftpcache(1), which only works with
OpenSSH versions 4.3 and earlier; later versions do not
print the sftp> prompt frequently enough.