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hfs - shell for manipulating HFS volumes

hfs [hfs-path [partition-no]]

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:

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.
The volume previously mounted from the specified path (or the current volume, if none specified) is unmounted.
The volume previously mounted from the specified path is made current.
General information about the currently mounted volume is displayed. This information is also displayed automatically when the volume is mounted.
The full path to the current working HFS directory is displayed.
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.
A directory listing of the specified HFS directory is displayed. If no path is given, the contents of the current working directory are shown.
A new, empty directory is created with the specified path.
The specified directory is removed. It must be empty.
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.
Both forks of the specified file are deleted.
Status information about the specified HFS path-identified entity is displayed.
The data fork of the specified HFS file is displayed.
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.
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.
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.

hfsutils(1), xhfs(1)

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.

Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

15-Jan-1997 HFSUTILS