[SOLVED] Midnight Commander copy remote path

montagdude · 10-15-2018, 08:19 AM

Midnight Commander is a huge productivity booster for me at work. One thing that I find myself doing frequently is connecting to a remote server using the FISH protocol and rsyncing files to and from it. I use Ctrl-x Ctrl-p to copy the path from the remote server onto the command line for the rsync command. The only annoyance with this is that the path is printed in this syntax:

Code:

/sh://server.domain/remote/path/

rsync needs it to have the standard syntax:

Code:

server.domain:/remote/path/

Editing the path manually is rather annoying. Does anyone know if it's possible to get the remote path from mc in the second format? Even just having the path without 'server.domain:' would be helpful, because it's quicker to prepend server.domain: than it is to edit the string in the first format above. Thanks for the help.

ondoho · 10-16-2018, 02:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montagdude

the command line for the rsync command.

is this rsync itself, or some wrapper script?

if wrapper script:

Code:

path="/sh://server.domain/remote/path/"
echo "${path#/sh://}"

montagdude · 10-16-2018, 07:36 AM

This is rsync; however, I like your idea of using a wrapper script instead of rsync itself. By the way, your example is not quite right because the output needs a colon after server.domain.

montagdude · 10-16-2018, 08:13 AM

I ended up creating a wrapper script in Python, which I named mcrsync. I can simply call mcrsync instead of rsync, and it converts paths like /sh://server.domain/remote/path/ as provided by mc into the form server.domain:/remote/path/.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python                                                           
#                                                                               
# This is a wrapper script for rsync that replaces FISH paths in the form       
# /sh://server.domain/path/ as commonly encountered in mc with the form         
# server.domain:/path/ as needed by rsync.                                      
#                                                                               
import sys                                                                      
import subprocess                                                               
                                                                                
def convert_mc_path(arg):                                                       
                                                                                
    argnew = arg                                                                
    if arg.find('/sh://') > -1:                                                 
        argnew = arg.replace('/sh://','')                                       
        argnew = argnew.replace('/',':/',1)                                     
    return argnew                                                               
                                                                                
if __name__ == "__main__":                                                      
                                                                                
    argv = ['rsync']                                                            
    for i in range(1, len(sys.argv)):                                           
        argv.append(convert_mc_path(sys.argv[i]))                               
    subprocess.call(argv)