On 10/06/2017 03:06 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:53 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com
<mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:
I would like to write a backup program to backup up
my wife's files.
Question: how do I access mtp://[usb:002,010] from
both the command line and from Perl 6?
No MTP support module for Perl 6 as yet. There's a suite of command line
utilities, but they're *fugly*. (The package is called mtp-tools on
debian-derived systems; I don't know what rhel/fedora call it.)
Use 'mtp-files' to get a listing of files and their ids, and then
'mtp-getfile' to copy a file by its id (not name, at least not in the
version of mtp-tools I have). So to grab a backup settings file from my
old phone (whose mtp implementation doesn't work with current linux file
managers that speak mtp) I ended up doing:
mtp-files >5x.txt
grep -B1 -F k9s 5x.txt
(this reported file id 4325 for the settings file)
mtp-getfile 4325 settings.k9s
(this retrieves file 4325 and saves it locally as settings.k9s)
You may need to use mtp-connect to discover the tablet and find out what
settings are needed to make it the default device for mtp operations.
Thank you!
The weird part is that Thunar sees and operates the thing perfectly!
