# Can I \`name publish\` multiple objects under different human readable names?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/can-i-name-publish-multiple-objects-under-different-human-readable-names/501>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 23, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/can-i-name-publish-multiple-objects-under-different-human-readable-names/501 "2017-05-23T20:29:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/can-i-name-publish-multiple-objects-under-different-human-readable-names/501/1 "2017-05-23T20:29:14Z")

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_From @Gozala on Fri Dec 16 2016 20:01:39 GMT+0000 (UTC)_  
  
After reading a white paper (specifically section 3.6.8 Path Lookup Performance) I got an impression that I could use `/ipns/${my_node_id}` as namespace for creating mutable index of the immutable content. Or in other words my assumption was that I could publish specific IPFS objects under human-readable names. So for example if I have `app1` and `app2` with id’s `${app1_id}` and `{app2_id}` I should be able to publish them under: `/ipns/${my_node_id}/${app1_id}` and `/ipns/${my_node_id}/${app2_id}` but I can’t figure out how to do that. From what I can tell I can just publish single object as `/ipns/${my_node_id}` which could be a directory containing `app_1` and `app_2` to somewhat accomplish what I’m trying, but then I think it’s actually will be a different object that will contain equivalent content rather than just pointers to specific objects.

What I really wish I could do is to have an equivalent of git branches so I could just update update pointers to new versions of `app1` and `app2` so something like:

````sh
ipfs name publish app1 ${app1_id} # Published to ${my_node_id}/app1: ${app1_id}
ipfs name publish app2 ${app2_id} # Published to ${my_node_id}/app2: ${app2_id}

ipfs name publish app1 ${app1_id_v2} # Published to ${my_node_id}/app1: ${app1_id_v2}
```<br /><br /><i>Copied from original issue: https://github.com/ipfs/support/issues/46</i>
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_From @Kubuxu on Fri Dec 16 2016 20:25:47 GMT+0000 (UTC)_  
  
You are 100% right when you say you could use directories, and it is precisely what you should do.

> but then I think it’s actually will be a different object that will contain equivalent content rather than just pointers to specific objects.

This doesn’t matter at all.

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To accomplish what you want to do you can use Files API. It works as follows:

```bash
H1=$(ipfs add -q "$MY_APP1")
ipfs rm -r /app1 || true # always delete, doesn't matter if it doesn't exist, cp -f would be better but doesn't exist yet
ipfs cp /ipfs/$(H1) /app1
ipfs name publish $(ipfs files stat --hash /)

```

You can repeat it with app2 instead of app1.  
I think it will accomplish what you want to do.