lltag_formats(5)

💖 lltag_formats(5) — the formats tea 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for lltag_formats — the File Formats Manual page, and it's literally all about the internal formats database file for lltag. it's giving "config file lore" and honestly? we're obsessed. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

formats — the internal formats database file for lltag, no cap 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the internal format database is usually chilling at /etc/lltag/formats, right? that's its home base. but — and this is the fun part — you can override that whole thing by defining a $HOME/.lltag/formats. and listen, if that file exists, the system-wide one is ignored. like, fully ghosted. 🙈

these files contain entries that start with a line like this:

[%n - %a - %t]

a title between brackets that gets displayed at runtime. cute, right? it's the lil name tag for your format. ✨

then, the following 3 lines must be given to explain how the format is actually used to parse filenames:

• type = basename — the type is either basename (to parse the last part of the path to a file) or path (to parse the directory part of the path to a file). and when you're actually parsing the path to target files, the basename and path parsers get assembled together — all possible combinations will be tried. she's thorough, okay? 😌
• regexp = %L%N%S-%S%A%S-%S%A%L — a string composed of any characters, but with these special fields that do the heavy lifting:
  • %L for delimiter (empty by default, or multiple spaces if --spaces was given)
  • %S for a space (or multiple spaces if --spaces was given)
  • %N for numbers
  • %A for an alphanumeric string without /
  • %P for any path (alphanumeric string with /)
  • %% for %
• indices = NUMBER,ARTIST,TITLE — a list of fields to match (either given by their full name or their associated letter) corresponding to each %N or %A field in the previous format. it may be:
  • AUTHOR (or a)
  • ALBUM (A)
  • GENRE (g)
  • NUMBER (n)
  • TITLE (t)
  • DATE (d)
  • COMMENT (c)
  • IGNORE (i)

also, see FORMAT in the manpage of lltag for the details about these fields. iykyk 🧚

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• lltag(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brice Goglin

and that's the whole page, bestie — this little beauty dropped in November 2006, lives in the File Formats Manual section, and goes by lltag_formats(5). slay. 💖✨🎀