NAME
hfs - shell for manipulating HFS volumes
SYNOPSIS
hfs [hfs-path [partition-no]]
DESCRIPTION
hfs is an interactive command-oriented
tool for manipulating HFS volumes. hfs is based on the Tcl
interpreter, so basic Tcl constructs can be used in addition to the
following commands:
- mount path [partition-no]
- The specified UNIX path is opened as an HFS volume. If a
partition number n is specified and the volume source is
located on a partitioned medium, the nth discovered HFS
partition will be mounted. The default partition-no is 1.
- umount [path]
- The volume previously mounted from the specified path (or the
current volume, if none specified) is unmounted.
- vol path
- The volume previously mounted from the specified path is made
current.
- info
- General information about the currently mounted volume is
displayed. This information is also displayed automatically when
the volume is mounted.
- pwd
- The full path to the current working HFS directory is
displayed.
- cd [hfs-path]
- The current working directory is changed to the given HFS path.
If no path is given, the working directory is changed to the root
of the volume.
- dir [hfs-path]
- A directory listing of the specified HFS directory is
displayed. If no path is given, the contents of the current working
directory are shown.
- mkdir hfs-path
- A new, empty directory is created with the specified path.
- rmdir hfs-path
- The specified directory is removed. It must be empty.
- create hfs-path [type [creator]]
- An empty file is created with the specified path. The Macintosh
type and creator may be specified, or they will default to
TEXT and UNIX, respectively.
- del hfs-path
- Both forks of the specified file are deleted.
- stat hfs-path
- Status information about the specified HFS path-identified
entity is displayed.
- cat hfs-path
- The data fork of the specified HFS file is displayed.
- copyin unix-path [hfs-path [mode]]
- The specified UNIX file is copied to the named HFS destination
path. Unless specified otherwise, the file will be copied into the
current HFS working directory using a heuristically chosen mode.
The mode may be one of: macb (MacBinary II),
binh (BinHex), text, or raw.
- copyout hfs-path [unix-path [mode]]
- The specified HFS file is copied into the named UNIX
destination path. Unless specified otherwise, the file will be
copied into the current UNIX working directory using a
heuristically chosen mode. The modes are the same as for
copyin.
- format path [partition-no [volume-name]]
- The specified UNIX path is initialized as an empty HFS volume
with the given name, and this volume is subsequently mounted. The
default volume name is Untitled.
default volume name is Untitled.
The shell is scriptable, however it should be understood that
the above commands are actually implemented by Tcl procedures
prefixed with the character "h", e.g. hmount, hcd, etc., in order
to avoid name collisions with other Tcl utilities. The "h" may be
omitted in interactive use for convenience.
SEE ALSO
hfsutils(1),
xhfs(1)
BUGS
cat can only display the data fork of a file.
Text translations are performed unconditionally on the output.
Furthermore, binary data cannot be handled properly from within Tcl
scripts since the character with value 0 cannot be represented in
Tcl strings. Use copyout to copy files without these
limitations.
AUTHOR
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>