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Re: [PATCH Cogito] match pathnames in exclude handling

From
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
May 12, 2005, 07:54 UTC
Message-ID
<20050512075415.GA27670@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To
<4282797A.5020001@zytor.com>
Hi,
H. Peter Anvin:
> How does that mean foo*.c would match foo/bar/quux.c?  That's probably a 
> bad thing.
>

No, of course not -- that was a thinko on my part when I typed the examples. :-/

> I do like the (sadly, rarely used) convention that ** matches / whereas 
> * doesn't.
>

fnmatch() doesn't support that. Of course, if there's demand for it, it should be reasonably easy to have our own extended copy.

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