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Sync internal and external files on your Android machine (or any device that uses GVFS) with your Linux machine.

What is GVFS

GVFS stands for GNOME Virtual File System. It's used to mount the content of your Android device when you connect via a USB cable. To access both internal storage and the SD card. Cameras also use this filesystem to mount their content.

How does `connect` help me?

It helps you get the path to the mount directory (which is not that easy to find!)

$ connect path
/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A001%2C075%5D

You can also get a shell directly on that directory.

$ connect shell
async> ls -a
.  ..  Card  Phone

And, mainly, it helps you sync the content to a local path on your host machine.

$ connect sync Card/DCIM/
rsync -av /run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A001%2C075%5D/Card/DCIM/ /home/user/.async/data/Card/DCIM
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Sync fails with paths that include whitespace

connect sync /Card/White\ Space fails when the given path includes white space.

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Consider `gio`

According to gio's man page it is a utility that makes many of the GIO features available from the commandline. In doing so, it provides commands that are similar to traditional utilities, but let you use GIO locations instead of local files: for example you can use something like smb://server/resource/file.txt as location.

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