15.8. GVFS Tools and xdg-utils in GNOME
15.8. GVFS Tools and xdg-utils in GNOME GVFS ships with several commands that may come useful for scripting or testing. A set of POSIX commands counterparts is offered: gvfs-cat gvfs-less gvfs-mkdir gvfs-mount gvfs-rename gvfs-set-attribute gvfs-copy gvfs-ls gvfs-move gvfs-rm gvfs-trash gvfs-info gvfs-save gvfs-tree Some more additional commands are provided for more control of GVFS specifics: gvfs-monitor-dir gvfs-monitor-file gvfs-mime gvfs-open All these commands are native GIO clients, there is no need for the fallback FUSE daemon to be running. Their purpose is not to be drop-in replacements for POSIX commands, in fact, a very little range of switches is supported. In their basic form, an URI string (instead of a local path) is taken as an argument. This all allows GNOME to be well-supported within xdg-tools (a freedesktop.org interoperability project). For example, the commonly used xdg-open actually calls gvfs-open when a running GNOME session is detected, reading file type associations from the correct location. The following are a few examples of the GVFS commands usage: To lists all files in /tmp on a local file system, execute: The command below lists contents of a text file from a remote machine: To copy the referenced text file to a local /tmp directory, run: Note For user convenience, bash completion is provided as a part of the package.
gvfs-ls file:///tmp gvfs-cat ssh://joe@ftp.myserver.net/home/joe/todo.txt gvfs-copy ssh://joe@ftp.myserver.net/home/joe/todo.txt /tmp/