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wmiir(1)

NAME

   wmiir - The wmii 9P filesystem client

SYNOPSIS

   wmiir  [-a <address>] [-b] {create | ls [-dlp] | read | remove | write}
   <file>

   wmiir [-a <address>] [-b] 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.

   Since  the  default  encoding of 9P filesystems is UTF-8, wmiir assumes
   that all data read and written is text data and translates to  or  from
   your locale character encoding as necessary. When working with non-text
   data in a non-UTF-8 locale, the -b flag should be specified to  disable
   this behavior.

ARGUMENTS

   -a     The address at which to connect to wmii.

   -b

          With  the  -b  flag,  data  that  you intend to read or write is
          treated as binary data.

   :

COMMANDS

   The following commands deal with 9P filesystems.

   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.

   Additionally, wmiir provides the following utility commands relevant to
   scripting wmii:

   namespace

          Prints  the current wmii namespace directory, usually equivalent
          to /tmp/ns.$USER.${DISPLAY%.0}, but possibly different depending
          on the value of $NAMESPACE and $WMII_NAMESPACE.
          Synonyms: ns

   setsid [-0 <argv0>] [-f] <command>

          Executes  the  given  command  after setting the session id (see
          setsid(2)). If -0 is given, the command is run  with  the  given
          value  as argv[0]. For instance, to run sh as a login shell, one
          might run

          wmiir setsid \-0 \-sh sh

          If -f is given, wmiir  will  fork  into  the  background  before
          executing the command.

   proglist [--] <directory> ...

          Lists all executable commands in the given directories.

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



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