Mount your shared folders easily with no effort at all (VMware)

README.md

mount-vmhgfs-fuse

This script can be used to mount your shared folders easily on linux with vmhgfs-fuse

Dependencies

• open-vm-tools
• awk
• getopts

TL;DR (you're just lazy) common linux things to have and open-vm-tools.

Usage

mount-vmhgfs [-p mount_prefix]

• -p mount_prefix Mount prefix. Eg. -p /mnt/hello -> /mnt/hello/<your shared folders>

mount-vmhgfs-fuse

#!/usr/bin/env sh

mount_prefix="/mnt"
while getopts "hp:" o
do
	case "$o" in
		h)
			echo "Usage: $0 [-p mount_prefix]"
			exit 0
			;;
		p)
			mount_prefix="$OPTARG"
			;;
	esac
done


# get a list of mountpoints just in case
mounted=$(mount | awk '$1 == "vmhgfs-fuse" { print $3 }')

vmware-hgfsclient | while read -r line
do
	mount_path="$mount_prefix/$line"
	# this line basically uses awk to print the mount path if it exists in $mounted
	path_mounted="$(echo "$mounted" | awk -v mount_path="$mount_path" '$1 == mount_path { print mount_path }')"
	if [ -z "$path_mounted" ]
	then
		if [ ! -d "$mount_path" ];then mkdir -p "$mount_path"; fi
		/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse -o allow_other -o auto_unmount ".host:/$line" "$mount_path"
	else
		echo "'$mount_path' is already mounted; skipping"
	fi
done