I have a directory tree with LOTS of .gz files. I once saw a way to mount it (via FUSE I think) so that I could see all the files directly (i.e. unzipped) under another directory.
I've been searching for a while and it could have been gvfs but I don't see how to use it for that purpose; I did not see any examples besides gvfsd-archive file.gz mountpoint which is not what I'm looking for.
Read-only is fine for my purpose.
Hi this sounds like the thing you may have used previously:
https://github.com/cybernoid/archivemount
ArchiveMount.
Looks easy to install:
Requirements
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You will need autoconf, libarchive-dev and libfuse-dev for building
archivemont, as well as GNU make and gcc of course.
Installation
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From version 0.6.0 on archivemount uses autoconf, so just do the normal
autoreconf -i
./configure && make && sudo make install
to build archivemount and install it to /usr/local. For building it,
libfuse is needed in version 2.6 or higher, including its headerfiles
of course (on most distributions those can be found in a package named
something like libfuse-dev or so).
And very simple to run:
Usage
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archivemount <options> <archive> <mountpoint>
Options are the normal fuse mount options, nothing special supported yet.
Hope this helps.
archivemount can only mount a single archive file. I need one that can do it with LOTS of them.
~/.somecustomdir/root/user/dir/file.tgz/sub/contentand access the content file directly.