From d0362171cf1e018da294b13ae7a8659e1f997d21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Braza Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 03:42:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: environment variable remote name only supports letters, digits, or underscores --- docs/content/docs.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/docs.md b/docs/content/docs.md index f69e4d4bb..4f764adca 100644 --- a/docs/content/docs.md +++ b/docs/content/docs.md @@ -2604,6 +2604,9 @@ for each backend. To find the name of the environment variable, you need to set, take `RCLONE_CONFIG_` + name of remote + `_` + name of config file option and make it all uppercase. +Note one implication here is the remote's name must be +convertible into a valid environment variable name, +so it can only contain letters, digits, or the `_` (underscore) character. For example, to configure an S3 remote named `mys3:` without a config file (using unix ways of setting environment variables):