Filepath Wildcards
Filepath wildcards can be used in most places in RDAdmin where a filename
is required.
Definition
A date/time wildcard in Rivendell has the following form:
%<meta-char><fmt-char>
where:
%
A literal percent.
<meta-char>
Optional. One of the following meta-characters:
^
Convert value indicated by <fmt-char>
to all uppercase.
$
Convert the initial character of the value indicated by
<fmt-char> to uppercase.
<fmt-char>
One of the following letters:
a
Abbreviated weekday name --e.g. 'mon', 'tue'
A
Full weekday name --e.g. 'monday', 'tuesday'
b
Abbreviated month name --e.g. 'jan', 'feb'
B
Full month name --e.g. 'january', 'february'
c
[unassigned]
C
Century
d
Day of the month, zero padded (01 - 31)
D
Date (mm-dd-yy)
e
Day of the month, space padded ( 1 - 12)
E
Day of the month, unpadded (1 - 12)
f
[unassigned]
F
Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
g
Two digit year, as per ISO 8601
G
Four digit year, as per ISO 8601
h
Abbreviated month name --e.g. 'jan', 'feb'
H
Hour, 24 hour, zero padded (00 - 23)
i
Hour, 12 hour, space padded ( 0 - 12)
I
Hour, 12 hour, zero padded (00 - 12)
j
Day of year, zero padded (000 - 355)
J
Hour, 12 hour, unpadded (1 - 12)
k
Hour, 24 hour, space padded ( 0 - 23)
K
[unassigned]
l
[unassigned]
L
[unassigned]
m
Month, zero padded (01 - 12)
M
Minute, zero padded (00 - 59)
n
[unassigned]
N
[unassigned]
o
[unassigned]
O
[unassigned]
p
AM/PM string
P
[unassigned]
q
[unassigned]
Q
[unassigned]
r
Rivendell Host Name [not FQDN]
R
Rivendell Host Short Name
s
Service Name
S
Seconds, zero padded (00 - 60)
t
[unassigned]
T
[unassigned]
u
Day of the week, numeric, 1=Monday, 7=Sunday
U
[unassigned]
v
[unassigned]
V
Week number, as per ISO 8601
w
Day of the week, numeric, 0=Sunday,6=Saturday
W
Week number, as per ISO 8601
x
[unassigned]
X
[unassigned]
y
Two digit year
Y
Four digit year
z
[unassigned]
Z
[unassigned]
%
A literal '%'
Examples
For the date time of February 3rd, 2017 at 2:34:26 PM:
%b
feb
%B
february
%^B
FEBRUARY
%$B
February
%A
friday
%a
fri
%u
5
%D
02-03-17
%j
034
%m/%d/%Y - %H:%M:%S
02/03/2017 - 14:34:26
%m/%d/%Y - %I:%M:%S %p
02/03/2017 - 02:34:26 PM