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authorWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2003-05-01 19:33:57 +0000
committerWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2003-05-01 19:33:57 +0000
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Mention that a pattern with "**" is matched against the entire path, even
if the pattern doesn't contain a slash.
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@@ -913,11 +913,11 @@ itemize(
it() if the pattern includes a double asterisk "**" then all wildcards in
the pattern will match slashes, otherwise they will stop at slashes.
- it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) then it
- is matched against the full filename, including any leading
- directory. If the pattern doesn't contain a / then it is matched
- only against the final component of the filename. Again, remember
- that the algorithm is applied recursively so "full filename" can
+ it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) or a "**"
+ then it is matched against the full filename, including any leading
+ directory. If the pattern doesn't contain a / or a "**", then it is
+ matched only against the final component of the filename. Again,
+ remember that the algorithm is applied recursively so "full filename" can
actually be any portion of a path.
it() if the pattern starts with "+ " (a plus followed by a space)