In Debian 9, there's a FUSE-based filesystem jmtpfs, packaged with the same name. It seems to work quite well with Android 8 at least. Perhaps it is available as a package for Mint too?

As it's a real FUSE filesystem, it is actually mountable, and so usable from the command line.

The source code and the developer's introduction to jmtpfs is here: https://github.com/JasonFerrara/jmtpfs

In Debian 9, there's a FUSE-based filesystem jmtpfs, packaged with the same name. It seems to work quite well with Android 8 at least. Perhaps it is available as a package for Mint too?

As it's a real FUSE filesystem, it is actually mountable, and so usable from the command line.

The source code and the developer's introduction to jmtpfs is here.

In Debian 9, there's a FUSE-based filesystem jmtpfs, packaged with the same name. It seems to work quite well with Android 8 at least. Perhaps it is available as a package for Mint too?

As it's a real FUSE filesystem, it is actually mountable, and so usable from the command line.

The source code and the developer's introduction to jmptfs is here: https://github.com/JasonFerrara/jmtpfs

In Debian 9, there's a FUSE-based filesystem jmtpfs, packaged with the same name. It seems to work quite well with Android 8 at least. Perhaps it is available as a package for Mint too?

As it's a real FUSE filesystem, it is actually mountable, and so usable from the command line.

The source code and the developer's introduction to jmtpfs is here: https://github.com/JasonFerrara/jmtpfs