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.
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>