From patchwork Thu Oct 15 08:58:28 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig_Brady?= X-Patchwork-Id: 9160 Received: (qmail 94446 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2015 08:58:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list libc-alpha@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 94414 invoked by uid 89); 15 Oct 2015 08:58:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Subject: [PATCH] fnmatch.3: Describe the FNM_EXTMATCH flag and pattern syntax Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:58:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1444899508-24394-1-git-send-email-P@draigBrady.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady --- man3/fnmatch.3 | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/fnmatch.3 b/man3/fnmatch.3 index a7c55ff..3502e06 100644 --- a/man3/fnmatch.3 +++ b/man3/fnmatch.3 @@ -86,6 +86,32 @@ use of glibc and is implemented only in certain cases. .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