@Stebalien I started working on this to support Files API through Core API. I wanted to ask you if you feel this is the right direction...

I created a fileshelpers package so I didn't repeat as much code between commands and Core API.

I think this is the right direction. We can unify the unixfs and files APIs later (and deprecate this interface when we do that).

@Stebalien I think this is done and only needs to merge the interface and remove the replace here.

I don't understand why sharness tests are failing. I checked on my laptop and only mounting ones seem to be failing.

I'm not sure why they're passing for you. Try running:

> cd test/sharness
> make deps
> ./t0250-files-api.sh -v -i # -v means verbose, -i means "stop immediately on failure"

ipfs files read --count 0 is returning too many bytes. It looks like lengths and offsets need to be handled.

@Stebalien is this something still desirable or has it been done/can be closed? I don't have time in the foreseeable future to work on this PR.