From: David-Sarah Hopwood Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:50:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: docs/frontends/CLI.rst: document ./* trick, and that aliases should not be a single... X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.10a1~43 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/vdrive/%22news.html/banana.xhtml?a=commitdiff_plain;h=86471233f0556f6cca89db58d3ee88bc750ece64;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs/frontends/CLI.rst: document ./* trick, and that aliases should not be a single char on Windows. Also fix some rst2html warnings. refs #1853, #1840 Signed-off-by: David-Sarah Hopwood --- diff --git a/docs/frontends/CLI.rst b/docs/frontends/CLI.rst index 764cd7a6..9783197b 100644 --- a/docs/frontends/CLI.rst +++ b/docs/frontends/CLI.rst @@ -56,11 +56,18 @@ functionality) and including versions for a number of dependent libraries, 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 ``?``) +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``. +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 --------------- @@ -136,7 +143,7 @@ Filesystem Manipulation 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 ``_. +around web-API calls, which are described in ``__. By default, all filesystem-manipulation commands look in ``~/.tahoe/`` to figure out which Tahoe-LAFS node they should use. When the CLI command makes @@ -152,7 +159,7 @@ they ought to use a starting point. This is explained in more detail below. 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 @@ -286,6 +293,11 @@ In these summaries, ``PATH``, ``TOPATH`` or ``FROMPATH`` can be one of: * ``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 ---------------- @@ -304,6 +316,9 @@ 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. @@ -480,7 +495,7 @@ Command Examples 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 `_. + `Python fnmatch module `__. 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.