can someone with better knowledge in perl than me make a vfs plugin to visualize remotes in mc?
will it be better that copying to mount directories?
can someone with better knowledge in perl than me make a vfs plugin to visualize remotes in mc?
will it be better that copying to mount directories?
it is not for visualization it is for management (long copy and move tasks)
I don’t think I understand your question. Can you explain more please?
have you used mc sometime? is a filexplorer for changing over folders by ncurses.
So you can copy from one tab to another. I would like to do this without having to mount the folder. and in background do the copy task (if it is possible with %). (there are systems that dont support fuse)
In one side the / in the other the folders read in .rclone.conf, and if i click in crypted: the folder goes to another one that lists the files inside, and if i go over the folder i can move and see what it has. And if move from this to / the file is move in background doing rclone move. instead of cp over filesystem.
Would this be too slow?
I haven’t used it for a very long time, but I know what you mean. The rclone ncdu
interface is a bit like one half of the mc
interface I think.
So are you thinking there should be an rclone mc
command which would implement this? I have thought about this in the past.
It would probably work quite well. Using rclone move
is more efficient that using cp
in the filesystem and more reliable too.
I am thinking in Mc plugin that calls rclone to do this
I can’t find the homepage or source for mc - do you know where it is?
this is what i am asking about. they are in c, but i know it would be easy to do them in perl or perhaps go?
more utils in this directory /usr/lib/mc/extfs.d
I see - thanks.
I see the VFS plugins written in C… I think you’d probably have to write new plugins in C. Maybe a shim plugin could be written which then called external functions (eg rclone) to do its work. It is probably quite a lot of work though.
apt install mc in your linux system and look into this file
/usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/uzip it is perl no? i think it wont be so difficult to make a plugin … if it is in c it would be as you say
That looks like the thing! There is even a hepful README
So what we are talking about is writing an extfs plugin for mc…
I think this could probably be written as a shell/perl/python script quite easily.
Or it could be a new rclone command say rclone mcplugin
which you call with the parameters for the plugin script.
Anyone fancy having a go?
i am just trying to imagine or do a sample in doing this.
the script needs to have 4 commands list rm copyin copyout so it is no so hard to do this.
The problem i am seeing is that list needs to have full scan of remote (ls -lR) how intensive is this? as i have so much files … doing a full ls -lR … would last long and i dont know if i can get banned with doing this
mc support would be really great, as it wouldn’t have any root/mount/fuse requirements. BTW mc works just fine in Android/termux
However listing the whole remote can be really expensive - for many people probably no-go. We might be looking at the wrong type of plugin - this seems to be geared towards archives where it’s easy to get the complete listing
Ha! I’ve found something promising at least at first sight: https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/tree/master/src/vfs/fish/helpers
I’m a bit fuzzy about how it is precisely configured (probably you define a shell link against the local machine and on the local machine you make put some config file that contains stuff like:
#LIST /directory
ls -lLa $1 | grep ‘^[^cbt]’ | ( while read p x u g s m d y n; do echo "P$p $u.$g
S$s
d$m $d $y
:$n
"; done )
ls -lLa $1 | grep ‘^[cb]’ | ( while read p x u g a i m d y n; do echo "P$p $u.$g
E$a$i
dD$m $d $y
:$n
"; done )
echo ‘### 200’
but with rclone equivalents.
We don’t seem to need recursive ls. Transfer (STOR/RETR) is done from/to pipe which probably can be done via a temp file if needed (I guess not the optimal use of rclone capabilities but decent if you need just to snatch a couple files).
That looks interesting - yes! A shell script to do that might well be possible.
better with this (lua integration inside mc)
https://github.com/mooffie/mc/blob/luatip/src/lua/tests/nonauto/luafs_mirror.lua from mc^2 or mc2
https://www.geek.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/index.html
i am going to give it a try … although i am not so sure about how to do copyes (from file read string and copy string to fs? i ll be able to call rclone copy?
Great
You can use rclone copy
or rclone copyto
to copy a single file to a remote.
the problem is within lua … i dont know when it is the mc copy command called and how to hook to it. i have asked