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Show HN: Bashfs – Run commands as your filesystem

#1

Post by __init » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:53 AM UTC

#2

Post by riquito » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 4:49 AM UTC

Visionary, it was fun to see

#3

Post by jasonhansel » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 4:52 AM UTC

I worked on a semi-similar project, to let people turn bash scripts into FUSE filesystems: https://github.com/jasonhansel/microfs

For example, this script is used to make a FS that turns the web into a filesystem, so reading /www.google.com/GET will show the Google homepage: https://github.com/jasonhansel/microfs/blob/master/http.sh

#4

Post by YesThatTom2 » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 4:53 AM UTC

Go home, coder. You’re drunk!

#5

Post by Hnrobert42 » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 5:32 AM UTC

No, but really, why? I am not putting it down. I just don’t understand what is happening exactly, and the why might help.

#6

Post by BlackLotus89 » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 5:40 AM UTC

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #5

No, but really, why? I am not putting it down. I just don’t understand what is happening exactly, and the why might help.

Quote from the Readme:

> Why not?

#7

Post by PopeDotNinja » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 5:41 AM UTC

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #5

No, but really, why? I am not putting it down. I just don’t understand what is happening exactly, and the why might help.

They address this in the README.

#8

Post by tfowler » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 5:41 AM UTC

Don't see much difference than something like

$ cat <(my_favorite_script)

#9

Post by rambojazz » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 5:57 AM UTC

Is there any way this can be useful for something? Or is it just a fun experiment with FUSE?

#10

Post by high_5 » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 5:58 AM UTC

YesThatTom2 wrote: post #4

Go home, coder. You’re drunk!

Why not? :-D