Many of the commands use the argument < path >, which represents a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for a file or directory. A URI or path, has the form:
<protocol>://[<host>[:<host_port>]]/<path>
Some valid URI examples for < path >are:
- adfs://aster-afs/file2 Specifies a file in the root directory of the user in AFS.
- adfs:///file2 Specifies a file in the root directory of the user in AFS.
- adfs:///user/mydirectory Specifies a directory in AFS.
- file:///myimage.gif Specifies a file on the local file system.
- /user/content.json Specifies a file in the /user directory (adfs is implied).
If a protocol is not specified adfs is implied and a URI is expected. For local files, and where a local file is not the only option allowed, the protocol must be specified as file://. If a URI is supplied, and a host/port pair is not provided, ACT assumes that the client is connecting to a service running on the Aster Database queen that was specified when ACT was invoked.