gnunet-directory - Online in the Cloud

PROGRAM:

NAME

gnunet-directory - display directories

SYNOPSIS

gnunet-directory [OPTIONS] (FILENAME)*

DESCRIPTION

gnunet-directory lists the contents of one or more GNUnet directories. A GNUnet directory
is a binary file that contains a list of GNUnet file-sharing URIs and meta data. The
names of the directory files must be passed as command-line arguments to gnunet-directory.

-c FILENAME, --config=FILENAME
configuration file to use (useless option since gnunet-directory does not really
depend on any configuration options)

-h, --help
print help page

-L LOGLEVEL, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL
Change the loglevel. Possible values for LOGLEVEL are ERROR, WARNING, INFO and
DEBUG.

-v, --version
print the version number

NOTES

A GNUnet directory is a file containing a list of GNUnet URIs and meta data. The keys can
point to files, other directories or files in namespaces. In other words, a GNUnet
directory is similar to UNIX directories. The difference to tar and zip is that GNUnet
directory does not contain the actual files (except if they are really small, in which
case they may be inlined), just symbolic (links), similar to directories with symbolic
links in UNIX filesystems. The benefit is that the individual files can be retrieved
separately (if desired) and if some of the files are inserted to another node in GNUnet,
this just increases their availability but does not produce useless duplicates (for
example, it is a better idea to publish a collection of pictures or compressed sound files
using a GNUnet directory instead of processing them with archivers such as tar or zip
first). Directories can contain arbitrary meta data for each file.

If a directory has missing blocks (for example, some blocks failed to download), GNUnet is
typically able to retrieve information about other files in the directory. Files in a
GNUnet directory have no particular order; the GNUnet code that generates a directory can
reorder the entries in order to better fit the information about files into blocks of 32k.
Respecting 32k boundaries where possible makes it easier for gnunet-directory (and other
tools) to recover information from partially downloaded directory files.

At the moment, directories can be created by gnunet-fs-gtk and gnunet-publish. Just like
ordinary files, a directory can be published in a namespace.

GNUnet directories use the (unregistered) mimetype application/gnunet-directory. They can
show up among normal search results. The directory file can be downloaded to disk by
gnunet-download(1) for later processing or be handled more directly by gnunet-fs-gtk(1).

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs by using mantis <https://gnunet.org/bugs/> or by sending electronic mail to
<gnunet-developers@gnu.org>

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