AFPARG(1)

Okay bestie, this is the afparg manual from the Netatalk AFP Fileserver Manual 🎀, and it's giving main character energy ✨

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✨ Name ✨

afparg — send commands to an AFP server 🦋

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💅 Synopsis 💅

afparg [-1234567Vv] [-h host] [-p port] [-s volume] [-u user] [-w password] [-f command]

afparg -l

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🌸 Description 🌸

okay so afparg is a super simple tool for sending commands to an AFP server as an authenticated user 🔐 It's so good for peeking at files on the server or doing trivial file operations, lowkey easy stuff but literally so useful 💖

Run afparg -l to see every available command and what arguments it wants 🧚

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👑 Options 👑

• -1 — use the AFP 2.1 protocol version 🍓
• -2 — use the AFP 2.2 protocol version 🍓
• -3 — use the AFP 3.0 protocol version 🍓
• -4 — use the AFP 3.1 protocol version 🍓
• -5 — use the AFP 3.2 protocol version 🍓
• -6 — use the AFP 3.3 protocol version 🍓
• -7 — use the AFP 3.4 protocol version, which is the default ✨
• -f command arguments — the command you want to run 🎀
• -h host — the server's hostname or IP address (default: localhost) 🏠
• -l — list the available commands and then exit 🚪
• -p port — the server's port number (default: 548) 🔌
• -u user — the username for logging in to the AFP server (default: current uid) 🙋‍♀️
• -v — verbose output, so you get more details 🗣️
• -V — very verbose output, the extra chatty option 📢
• -w password — the password for logging in to the AFP server 🔑

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🧚 Configuration 🧚

heads up bestie ⚠️ The test runner AFP client only supports the ClearTxt UAM right now. To set it up, configure the UAM in netatalk's afp.conf like this:

[Global]
uam list = uams_clrtxt.so

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🍓 Examples 🍓

💖 List available commands and their arguments

$ afparg -l
FPResolveID CNID
FPEnumerate dir
FPCopyFile source dest
FPLockrw d | r file
FPLockw d | r file

✨ Resolve a CNID to file name

$ afparg -h 10.0.0.8 -u myuser -w mypass -s "test volume" -f FPResolveID 18
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FPResolveID with args:
Trying to resolve id 18
Resolved ID 18 to: 'AFP_Reference.pdf'

🦋 List files inside of a directory on the shared volume

$ afparg -h 10.0.0.8 -u myuser -w mypass -s "test volume" -f FPEnumerate "my dir"
file1
file2

🌈 Make a copy of a file on the shared volume

$ afparg -h 10.0.0.8 -u myuser -w mypass -s "test volume" -f FPCopyFile AFP_Reference.pdf AFP_Reference2.pdf
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FPCopyFile with args:
source: "AFP_Reference.pdf" -> dest: "AFP_Reference2.pdf"

🔥 Open a file's data fork with read/write lock

$ afparg -h 10.0.0.8 -u myuser -w mypass -s "test volume" -f FPLockrw d AFP_Reference2.pdf
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FPOpen with read/write lock
source: "AFP_Reference2.pdf"

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🦋 See Also 🦋

If you want more, check out afp_logintest(1), afp_spectest(1), and afpd(8) 💜

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That's the tea ☕ from Netatalk 4.5.1, bestie, and you're literally ready to go 🫶💜 AFPARG(1) 💅