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1 # Virtual filesystem implementation for GIO
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3 GVfs is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstraction
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4 of GIO (a library availible in GLib >= 2.15.1). It installs several modules that
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5 are automatically used by applications using the APIs of libgio. There is also
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6 FUSE support that allows applications not using GIO to access the GVfs
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7 filesystems.
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9 The GVfs model differs from e.g. GnomeVFS in that filesystems must be mounted
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10 before they are used. There is a master daemon (gvfsd) that handles coordinating
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11 mounts, and then each mount is (typically) in its own daemon process (although
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12 mounts can share daemon process).
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14 GVfs comes with a set of backends, including trash support, SFTP, SMB, HTTP,
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15 DAV, and others.
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17 GVfs also contains modules for GIO that implement volume monitors and the GNOME
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18 URI scheme handler configuration.
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20 There is a set of command line programs starting with "gvfs-" that lets you run
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21 commands (like `cat`, `ls`, `stat`, etc) on files in the GVfs mounts.
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23 command | description
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25 `gvfs-cat` | concatenates the given files and prints them to the standard output
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26 `gvfs-copy` | copies a file from one URI location to another
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27 `gvfs-info` | shows information about the given locations
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28 `gvfs-less` | executes less using the VFS as the input preprocesor, so less can access any resource accessible by any of the Gvfs backends
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29 `gvfs-ls` | lists information about the given locations
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30 `gvfs-mime` | is used to query information about applications that are registered to handle a mime-type, or set the default handler for a mime-type
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31 `gvfs-mkdir` | creates a directory specified by an URI
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32 `gvfs-monitor-dir` | prints information about file creation, deletion, file content and attribute changes and mount and unmount operations inside the specified directories
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33 `gvfs-monitor-file` | prints information about creation, deletion, content and attribute changes and mount and unmount operations affecting the monitored files
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34 `gvfs-mount` | provides commandline access to various aspects of GIOs mounting functionality
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35 `gvfs-move` | moves a file from one URI location to another
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36 `gvfs-open` | opens files with the default application that is registered to handle files of that type
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37 `gvfs-rename` | changes the name of a file or directory
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38 `gvfs-rm` | removes a file
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39 `gvfs-save` | reads from the standard input and saves the data to the given location
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40 `gvfs-set-attribute` | allows to set a file attribute on a file
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41 `gvfs-trash` | sends files or directories to the "Trashcan"
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42 `gvfs-tree` | lists the contents of the given directories recursively, in a tree-like format
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