RWD(1) RWD(1)
NAME
rwd, conswdir - maintain remote working directory
SYNOPSIS
rwd path
conswdir [ prog ]
DESCRIPTION
Rwd and conswdir conspire to keep rio(4) and acme(4)
informed about the current directory on remote systems dur-
ing login sessions. Rio and acme include this information
in plumb messages sent to plumber(4). If the remote system's
name space is mounted in the plumber's name space, the end
result is that file paths printed during the session are
plumbable.
Rwd informs rio and acme of directory changes. The name of
the remote machine is taken from the environment variable
$remotesys. Rwd writes the full path to /dev/wdir; writes
the last element of the path, suffixed by @remotesys, to
/dev/label; and when run inside a win (see acme(1)) window,
changes the window title to path/-remotesys using
/dev/acme/ctl.
Conswdir copies standard input to standard output, looking
for in-band messages about directory changes. The messages
are of the form:
\033];path\007
where \033 and \007 are ASCII escape and bell characters.
Such messages are removed from the stream and not printed to
standard output; for each such message conswdir runs prog
(default /bin/rwd) with path as its only argument.
EXAMPLES
Add this plumbing rule (see plumb(6)) in order to run com-
mands in the plumber's name space:
# have plumber run command
kind is text
data matches 'Local (.*)'
plumb to none
plumb start rc -c $1
Mount a Unix system in your name space and the plumber's:
% 9fs unix
% plumb 'Local 9fs unix'
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(If you're using acme, execute Local 9fs unix with the mid-
dle button to mount the Unix system in acme's name space.)
Connect to the Unix system, processing in-band directory
change messages:
% ssh unix | aux/conswdir
Add this shell function to your .profile on the Unix system
to generate directory change messages every time a cd com-
mand is executed:
H=`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`
_cd () {
\cd $* &&
case $- in
*i*)
_dir=`pwd`
echo /n/$H$_dir | awk '{printf("\033];%s\007", $1);}'
esac
}
alias cd=_cd
The examples described so far only help for relative path
names. Add this plumbing rule to handle rooted names like
/usr/include/stdio.h:
# remote rooted path names
type is text
wdir matches '/n/unix(/.*)?'
data matches '/([.a-zA-Z¡-0-9_/\-]*[a-zA-Z¡-0-9_/\-])('$addr')?'
arg isfile /n/unix/$1
data set $file
attr add addr=$3
plumb to edit
plumb client window $editor
SOURCE
/rc/bin/rwd
/sys/src/cmd/aux/conswdir.c
SEE ALSO
plumber(4), plumb(6), srv(4)
BUGS
This mechanism is clunky, but Unix and SSH make it hard to
build a better one.
The escape sequence was chosen because it changes the title
on xterm windows.
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