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      1 .TH 9P 1
      2 .SH NAME
      3 9p \- read and write files on a 9P server
      4 .SH SYNOPSIS
      5 .B 9p
      6 [
      7 .I options
      8 ]
      9 .B read
     10 .I path
     11 .br
     12 .B 9p
     13 [
     14 .I options
     15 ]
     16 .B readfd
     17 .I path
     18 .PP
     19 .B 9p
     20 [
     21 .I options
     22 ]
     23 .B write
     24 [
     25 .B -l
     26 ]
     27 .I path
     28 .br
     29 .B 9p
     30 [
     31 .I options
     32 ]
     33 .B writefd
     34 .I path
     35 .PP
     36 .B 9p
     37 [
     38 .I options
     39 ]
     40 .B stat
     41 .I path
     42 .PP
     43 .B 9p
     44 [
     45 .I options
     46 ]
     47 .B rdwr
     48 .I path
     49 .PP
     50 .B 9p
     51 [
     52 .I options
     53 ]
     54 .B ls
     55 [
     56 .B -dl
     57 ]
     58 .I path...
     59 .SH DESCRIPTION
     60 .I 9p
     61 is a trivial 9P client that can access a single file on a 9P server.
     62 It can be useful for manual interaction with a 9P server or for
     63 accessing simple 9P services from within shell scripts.
     64 The common options are:
     65 .TP
     66 .B -a\fI addr
     67 dial
     68 the server at
     69 .I addr
     70 .TP
     71 .B -A\fI aname
     72 attach to the file system named
     73 .I aname
     74 .TP
     75 .B -n
     76 mount without authentication
     77 .PP
     78 The first argument is a command, one of:
     79 .TP
     80 .B read
     81 print the contents of
     82 .I path 
     83 to standard output
     84 .TP
     85 .B write
     86 write data on standard input to
     87 .IR path ;
     88 the 
     89 .B -l
     90 option causes
     91 .I write
     92 to write one line at a time
     93 .TP
     94 .BR readfd ", " writefd
     95 like
     96 .B read
     97 and 
     98 .B write
     99 but use
    100 .IR openfd (9p)
    101 instead of
    102 .IR open ;
    103 this masks errors and is mainly useful for debugging
    104 the implementation of
    105 .I openfd
    106 .TP
    107 .B stat
    108 execute
    109 .I stat (9p)
    110 on 
    111 .I path
    112 and print the result
    113 .TP
    114 .B rdwr
    115 Open
    116 .I path
    117 for reading and writing.
    118 Then repeat until end-of-file on standard input:
    119 copy a line from the file to standard output,
    120 copy a line from standard input to the file.
    121 Print errors, but don't give up.
    122 .B Rdwr
    123 is useful for interacting with servers like
    124 .MR factotum (4) .
    125 .TP
    126 .B ls
    127 Print a directory listing in the format of
    128 .MR ls (1) .
    129 The
    130 .B -d
    131 and
    132 .B -l
    133 flags have the same meaning as in
    134 .IR ls .
    135 .PD
    136 .PP
    137 .I 9p
    138 dials
    139 .I address
    140 to connect to the 9P server.
    141 If the
    142 .B -a
    143 option is not given,
    144 .I 9p
    145 requires the
    146 .I path
    147 to be of the form
    148 .IB service / subpath \fR;
    149 it connects to the Unix domain socket
    150 .I service
    151 in the name space directory
    152 (see
    153 .MR intro (4) )
    154 and then accesses
    155 .IR subpath .
    156 .SH EXAMPLE
    157 To update
    158 .MR plumber (4) 's
    159 copy of your plumbing rules after editing
    160 .BR $HOME/lib/plumbing :
    161 .IP
    162 .EX
    163 cat $HOME/lib/plumbing | 9p write plumb/rules
    164 .EE
    165 .PP
    166 To display the contents of the current
    167 .MR acme (4)
    168 window:
    169 .IP
    170 .EX
    171 9p read acme/$winid/body
    172 .EE
    173 .SH SOURCE
    174 .B \*9/src/cmd/9p.c
    175 .SH SEE ALSO
    176 .MR intro (4) ,
    177 .IR intro (9p),
    178 .MR 9pclient (3)