This document describes the format of the configuration file that is used by the diskcache command line utility.

Introduction

The configuration file has a simple syntax intended to make it easier to pass large quantities of configuration information outside of the standard command line arguments.

Variable Names

Variables have the form <name>=<value>.

SERVER_PORT This is the port on which the server communicates.

CONCURRENCY This is the maximum number of threads used during a scan.

LOG The name of the file to store logging information.

LOG_DIRECTORY The directory in which to write the LOG.

OUTPUT_ASCII The name of the diskcache cache file in ASCII format.

OUTPUT_ASCII_VERSION The version format to use when writing the ASCII cache file.

OUTPUT_BINARY The name of the diskcache cache file in binary format.

OUTPUT_BINARY_VERSION The version format to use when wriing the binary cache file.

Section Names

Section have the form of [<section name>] on a single line with the lines following being entries to associate with <section name>. Sections are terminated by the naming of a new section.

[EXTENSIONS] Each line represents a file extension of interest. To be considered a match, the extension listed must be the right most characters of the filename. The extensions listed in this section must contain the period.

[EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES] Each line represents a directory name pattern to be excluded from the cache. The pattern may appear anywhere in the directory component of the file being examined.

[MOUNT_POINTS] Each line under this section is a root directory that should be recursively scanned for files of interest. Directories closer to the top will be preferred when searching for files of interest.