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All of these metacharacters are quoted with a backslash if they appear in the label. | |||
Sometimes the specification is abused by putting things that aren't labels in it: | |||
/A/p/hold\:ing/20100205181319/euclid._A_p_etc.1:0 | |||
Revision as of 00:20, 6 February 2010
Lists of on-media parts are sometimes passed around in a "tapelist", implemented in common-src/tapelist.c. This is not to be confused with the tapelist file (which, naturally enough, is implemented in server-src/tapefile.c).
A tapelist is a semicolon-separated list of volumes, where each volume is specified as a label, a colon, and a comma-separated list of file numbers on that volume. For example:
Conf-001:1
or
Conf-001:3,4,5,9,11;Conf-002:1,2,3
All of these metacharacters are quoted with a backslash if they appear in the label.
Sometimes the specification is abused by putting things that aren't labels in it:
/A/p/hold\:ing/20100205181319/euclid._A_p_etc.1:0