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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:24 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:24 +0000 |
commit | 100d1b33f088fd38f69129afff7f9c2a1e084a57 (patch) | |
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parent | Releasing progress-linux version 6.7-2~progress7.99u1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/man3/fnmatch.3 b/man/man3/fnmatch.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c359a1d --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/fnmatch.3 @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:35:54 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified Mon Oct 16 00:16:29 2000 following Joseph S. Myers +.\" +.TH fnmatch 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +fnmatch \- match filename or pathname +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <fnmatch.h> +.P +.BI "int fnmatch(const char *" "pattern" ", const char *" string ", int " flags ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR fnmatch () +function checks whether the +.I string +argument matches the +.I pattern +argument, which is a shell wildcard pattern (see +.BR glob (7)). +.P +The +.I flags +argument modifies the behavior; it is the bitwise OR of zero or more +of the following flags: +.TP +.B FNM_NOESCAPE +If this flag is set, treat backslash as an ordinary character, +instead of an escape character. +.TP +.B FNM_PATHNAME +If this flag is set, match a slash in +.I string +only with a slash in +.I pattern +and not by an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) metacharacter, +nor by a bracket expression ([]) containing a slash. +.TP +.B FNM_PERIOD +If this flag is set, a leading period in +.I string +has to be matched exactly by a period in +.IR pattern . +A period is considered to be leading if it is the first character in +.IR string , +or if both +.B FNM_PATHNAME +is set and the period immediately follows a slash. +.TP +.B FNM_FILE_NAME +This is a GNU synonym for +.BR FNM_PATHNAME . +.TP +.B FNM_LEADING_DIR +If this flag (a GNU extension) is set, the pattern is considered to be +matched if it matches an initial segment of +.I string +which is followed by a slash. +This flag is mainly for the internal +use of glibc and is implemented only in certain cases. +.TP +.B FNM_CASEFOLD +If this flag (a GNU extension) is set, the pattern is matched +case-insensitively. +.TP +.B FNM_EXTMATCH +If this flag (a GNU extension) is set, extended patterns are +supported, as introduced by \&'ksh' and now supported by other shells. +The extended format is as follows, with \fIpattern\-list\fR +being a \&'|' separated list of patterns. +.TP +\&'?(\fIpattern\-list\fR)' +The pattern matches if zero or one occurrences of any of the +patterns in the \fIpattern\-list\fR match the input \fIstring\fR. +.TP +\&'*(\fIpattern\-list\fR)' +The pattern matches if zero or more occurrences of any of the +patterns in the \fIpattern\-list\fR match the input \fIstring\fR. +.TP +\&'+(\fIpattern\-list\fR)' +The pattern matches if one or more occurrences of any of the +patterns in the \fIpattern\-list\fR match the input \fIstring\fR. +.TP +\&'@(\fIpattern\-list\fR)' +The pattern matches if exactly one occurrence of any of the +patterns in the \fIpattern\-list\fR match the input \fIstring\fR. +.TP +\&'!(\fIpattern\-list\fR)' +The pattern matches if the input \fIstring\fR cannot be matched with +any of the patterns in the \fIpattern\-list\fR. +.SH RETURN VALUE +Zero if +.I string +matches +.IR pattern , +.B FNM_NOMATCH +if there is no match or another nonzero value if there is an error. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR fnmatch () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe env locale +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +.TP +.BR fnmatch () +POSIX.1-2008. +.TP +.B FNM_FILE_NAME +.TQ +.B FNM_LEADING_DIR +.TQ +.B FNM_CASEFOLD +GNU. +.SH HISTORY +.TP +.BR fnmatch () +POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.2. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR sh (1), +.BR glob (3), +.BR scandir (3), +.BR wordexp (3), +.BR glob (7) |