How can I push files to a non-jailbroken iPad/iPhone from the OSX terminal?

Question

Edit: Assume the device is not jailbroken

Here's what I've done so far: I have looked at libimobiledevice and ifuse. From what I could tell, they were basically developed for Linux, but they are supposed to work on OSX. I was able to compile them for OSX by using Homebrew, but I have not been able to figure out how to actually use ifuse as it takes a mount path, and OSX doesn't seem to expose the device's mount path.

Has anyone actually been able to access the Documents directory on the iPad/iPhone via the OSX terminal window? How did you do it?

Answer 1

The mount point is the path on your Mac where you want to mount the app's Documents folder. For example, with ifuse 1.1.3, to mount the Documents folder of an app as a folder called MyApp on your desktop:

ifuse --documents <BundleID> ~/Desktop/MyApp

Make sure ~/Desktop/MyApp exists before trying to mount the device.

Answer 2

I think of this as needing a simple host for an http get. What's worked well for me is to place the file on volatile host like FileTea, and add a text field in my app where you type the url for a get.