Translate OS X / Windows file URLs to directory paths
Project description
Using Linux? Tired of receiving emails with links to files of the form X:\some%20path\on\remote%20share\spreadsheet.xls? Then we can help!
pathfix.py takes an unusable path as input and prints a useful one as output. That’s it.
It can handle Windows drive prefixes (if configured), and will also sort out file:/// and smb:// prefixes.
Installation
Create a config.ini file that contains the root of your network mounts and any drive mappings (see config.example.ini to get started).
We assume all your network shares are mounted under a common root, with the form:
/<network mount root>/<host name>/<share name>
To make sure it’ll work with your environment, run the tests:
python setup.py test
You may find it helpful to symlink pathfix.py to /usr/local/bin or somewhere else on your PATH.
Usage
For example, if you have this in your config.ini:
[main] network_root = /media/network [drive_maps] x = host1:share1 y = host2:share2
Then you can do, for example:
% python pathfix.py "X:\some%20path\on\remote%20share\spreadsheet.xls" /media/network/host1/share1/some path/on/remote share/spreadsheet.xls
Which you can use in subshells to fix arguments to other applications, for example:
% libreoffice "$(python pathfix.py "X:\some%20path\on\remote%20share\spreadsheet.xls")"
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