like Twisted, Foolscap, pycryptopp, and zfec. "``tahoe --version-and-path``"
will also show the path from which each library was imported.
-On Unix systems, the shell expands filename wildcards (``*`` and ``?``)
-before the program is able to read them, which may produce unexpected
-results for many ``tahoe`` comands. We recommend that you avoid using them.
-On Windows, wildcards cannot be used to specify multiple filenames to
-``tahoe``.
+On Unix systems, the shell expands filename wildcards (``'*'`` and ``'?'``)
+before the program is able to read them, which may produce unexpected results
+for many ``tahoe`` comands. We recommend, if you use wildcards, to start the
+path with "``./``", for example "``tahoe cp -r ./* somewhere:``". This
+prevents the expanded filename from being interpreted as an option or as an
+alias, allowing filenames that start with a dash or contain colons to be
+handled correctly.
+
+On Windows, a single letter followed by a colon is treated as a drive
+specification rather than an alias (and is invalid unless a local path is
+allowed in that context). Wildcards cannot be used to specify multiple
+filenames to ``tahoe`` on Windows.
Unicode Support
---------------
"``tahoe create-introducer [NODEDIR]``" is used to create the Introducer node.
This node provides introduction services and nothing else. When started, this
-node will produce an ``introducer.furl`` file, which should be published to all
-clients.
+node will produce a ``private/introducer.furl`` file, which should be
+published to all clients.
"``tahoe create-key-generator [NODEDIR]``" is used to create a special
"key-generation" service, which allows a client to offload their RSA key
These commands let you exmaine a Tahoe-LAFS filesystem, providing basic
list/upload/download/unlink/rename/mkdir functionality. They can be used as
primitives by other scripts. Most of these commands are fairly thin wrappers
-around web-API calls, which are described in `<webapi.rst>`_.
+around web-API calls, which are described in `<webapi.rst>`__.
By default, all filesystem-manipulation commands look in ``~/.tahoe/`` to
figure out which Tahoe-LAFS node they should use. When the CLI command makes
Starting Directories
--------------------
-As described in `docs/architecture.rst <../architecture.rst>`_, the
+As described in `docs/architecture.rst <../architecture.rst>`__, the
Tahoe-LAFS distributed filesystem consists of a collection of directories
and files, each of which has a "read-cap" or a "write-cap" (also known as
a URI). Each directory is simply a table that maps a name to a child file
* ``DIRCAP/[SUBDIRS/]FILENAME`` or ``DIRCAP:./[SUBDIRS/]FILENAME`` for a path
relative to a directory cap.
+See `CLI Command Overview`_ above for information on using wildcards with
+local paths, and different treatment of colons between Unix and Windows.
+
+``FROMLOCAL`` or ``TOLOCAL`` is a path in the local filesystem.
+
Command Examples
----------------
Since Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.2, the alias name can be given with or without the
trailing colon.
+ On Windows, the alias should not be a single character, because it would be
+ confused with the drive letter of a local path.
+
``tahoe create-alias fun``
This combines "``tahoe mkdir``" and "``tahoe add-alias``" into a single step.
``tahoe put file.txt --mutable``
- Create a new mutable file, fill it with the contents of ``file.txt``, and
- print the new write-cap to stdout.
+ Create a new (SDMF) mutable file, fill it with the contents of ``file.txt``,
+ and print the new write-cap to stdout.
``tahoe put file.txt MUTABLE-FILE-WRITECAP``
- Replace the contents of the given mutable file with the contents of ``file.txt``
- and prints the same write-cap to stdout.
+ Replace the contents of the given mutable file with the contents of
+ ``file.txt`` and print the same write-cap to stdout.
``tahoe cp file.txt tahoe:uploaded.txt``
Same as above, but this time the backup process will ignore any
filename that will end with '~'. ``--exclude`` will accept any standard
Unix shell-style wildcards, as implemented by the
- `Python fnmatch module <http://docs.python.org/library/fnmatch.html>`_.
+ `Python fnmatch module <http://docs.python.org/library/fnmatch.html>`__.
You may give multiple ``--exclude`` options. Please pay attention that
the pattern will be matched against any level of the directory tree;
it's still impossible to specify absolute path exclusions.
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