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I have an SMB share mounted through nautilus. I am noticing that the gnome-screenshot tool seems to be able to access this mounted share automatically, as I do not get any password prompt when running the following:

gnome-screenshot -w -f "smb://<server>/<share>/path/image.png"

This works and I see the uploaded screenshot.

I would then like to create/upload a text file from a bash variable with no user interaction, but I am unhappy with the solutions I have come up with so far:

  • echo directly into the mountpoint of the share (/run/user/XXXX/gvfs/...)
    • I don't love having long hardcoded paths that contain userIDs and server addresses that may change, however unlikely
  • Use smbclient to put a copy of the file after creating it locally
    • Requires me to either enter credentials again, or store it in the bash file

Is there a way to make smbclient recognize the already mounted share without re-entering credentials, or is there another tool like gnome-screenshot that would allow me to accomplish similar functionality with a text file?

Or, is the ugly mountpoint solution the best there is?

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I have an SMB share mounted through nautilus. I am noticing that the gnome-screenshot tool seems to be able to access this mounted share automatically, as I do not get any password prompt when running the following

yep, GNOME tools use the gvfs virtual filesystem implementation, which will mount things on the fly and get credentials from gnome-keyring if necessary and possible.

So all you need to do is find another gvfs client that lets you store data. I'm not sure whether you want a text editor, because then, the standard GNOME text editor can absolutely do that, gedit smb://….

Another option for creating the file without user interaction is the gio (Gnome Input/Output) tool, which has a save subcommand that saves data from stdin. This can be used with echo to save the contents of a variable:

echo $output | gio save "smb://server/share/test.txt"
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  • I edited my question to specify, i was looking for a tool to create a text file with no user interaction/UI (from a bash variable). I was able to find gio {save, move} which i have never used before, but worked perfectly for my application. If you could edit your answer to include mention of the gio tool i would appreciate it, but as is you provided the context needed for me to find a solution so i will accept it. Thanks! Commented Jan 12 at 7:27
  • @DouglasB but I already do mention the gio tool? Commented Jan 12 at 11:44
  • Yes I slightly misspoke, the part of the answer that I felt needed clarification was mentioning gio mount vs gio save in the context of the question. I have edited the answer to include an example of the command which solved my problem, I hope you do not mind! Commented Jan 13 at 19:25

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