Create and edit unixfs by hand

[cyfral]

Let’s say I’ve got database of IPFS’ hashes and corresponding filenames with another metadata. I want to create unixfs with these hashes, but without using original files. I also want to add or delete some files from directory(I know that the hash of directory will change, but that’s not the problem right now). Is it possible with js-ipfs/go-ipfs or api?

[leerspace]

Take a look at the ipfs object command. Here’s an example of adding files and folders in IPFS to an existing directory.

Join two folders?

I’m not sure there’s a single command that will do this easily. But here’s a simple proof of concept script that will do this. Assuming HASH is the hash of a folder in IPFS, this script will loop through the contents of a local folder named test2 and add the contents to the existing directory hash. The final hash that’s spit out by the script is the hash of the combined directory. #!/bin/bash # hash of folder currently in IPFS HASH="QmW85q9pmby55reZb9YrcLRr5L2gHcvTFGoSmjADCbhq1w" FOLDER2=".…