NAME¶
wmiir - The wmii 9P filesystem client
SYNOPSIS¶
wmiir
[-a <address>] {create | ls
[-dlp] | read |
remove | write}
<file>
wmiir
[-a <address>] xwrite
<file>
<data> ...
wmiir -v
DESCRIPTION¶
wmiir is a simple 9P filesystem client which ships with
wmii, and
connects to its virtual filesystem by default.
wmiir is most often used
to query and issue commands to
wmii, both from the command line and
from its
sh-based configuration scripts.
ARGUMENTS¶
- -a
- The address at which to connect to wmii.
COMMANDS¶
- create <file>
- Creates a new file or directory in the filesystem.
Permissions and file type are inferred by wmii. The contents of the
standard input are written to the new file.
- ls [-dlp] <path>
- Lists the contents of <path>.
Flags:
- -d
- Don't list the contents of directories.
- -l
- Long output. For each file, list its permissions, owner,
group, size (bytes), mtime, and name.
- -p
- Print the full path to each file.
- read <file>
- Reads the entire contents of a file from the filesystem.
Blocks until interrupted or EOF is received.
Synonyms: cat
- remove <path>
- Removes <path> from the filesystem.
Synonyms: rm
- write <file>
- Writes the contents of the standard input to
<file>.
- xwrite <file> <data> ...
- Writes each argument after <file> to the
latter.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- $WMII_ADDRESS
- The address at which to connect to wmii.
- $NAMESPACE
- The namespace directory to use if no address is provided.
SEE ALSO¶
wmii(1), libixp
[2]
[1] http://www.suckless.org/wiki/wmii/tips/9p_tips
[2] http://libs.suckless.org/libixp