On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, Alejandro Colomar <a...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Paul, > > On 2023-08-29 14:45, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-08-29 at 11:32 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > >> Am I missing something? Is something like that allowed anyhow? > > > > Multiple "%" are allowed, in that they won't throw an error. But, only > > the first "%" is replaced. The second (and subsequent) "%" are just > > normal characters, not pattern matching. > > Thanks! That was my expectation before reading the docs. Maybe you > could reword it to be explicit that only one % is used as a wildcard. Good morning. The same paragraph says that after matching % the rest of the name must match exactly. However, be careful if you want to rely on this. We fixed it just recently. 4.3 and earlier would replace all %, Regards, Dmitry > Cheers, > Alex > > -- > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> > GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5 > >
