Allow ':' in filenames
You can now use '\' to escape a colon in a filename.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
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@@ -243,8 +243,11 @@
can specify a number of files by separating the names with a
':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
as the two working files, you would use
- filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. '-' is a reserved name, meaning
- stdin or stdout. Which of the two depends on the read/write
+ filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. If the wanted filename does need to
+ include a colon, then escape that with a '\' character. For
+ instance, if the filename is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would
+ use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". '-' is a reserved name,
+ meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the two depends on the read/write
direction set.
opendir=str Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this