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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, March 10, 2003 2:16:13 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, July 29, 2002 11:03:57 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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-A File [Glob] is a way to match files. "*" matches any charactor zero or more times
. "?" matches any charactor exactly once. "[[a-z]" matches any charactor in the range a-z.
+A File [Glob] is a way to match files. "*" matches any charactor. "?" matches any charactor exactly once. "[[a-z]" matches any charactor in the range a-z.
Some examples:
*.*
matches all files that contain a "." in them.
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matches all files that begin with a lowercase letter
*.gz
matches all files that end with .gz
+
+Note, * and ? __don't__ match / or a . at the beginning of a filename eg: * doesn't match:
+ .
+ ..
+ .foo
+ baz/nargle
+but does match:
+ foo.txt
+ baz/
+
See glob(7) for more advanced uses.
-Contrast RegularExpressions
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+Contrast RegularExpression
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