reopen 243885 reassign 240887 dash retitle 240887 fnmatch(3) is broken quit
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:09:05AM +1000, herbert wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means > > "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what > > you think it means. > > You're quite right. This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for > basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define > shell patterns. Sorry guys, but this turns out to be wrong. POSIX has an additional paragraph which I skipped earlier: : When pattern matching is used where shell quote removal is not performed : (such as in the argument to the find -name primary when find is being : called using one of the exec functions as defined in the System : Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x, or in the pattern argument : to the fnmatch( ) function), special characters can be escaped to remove : their special meaning by preceding them with a backslash character. This : escaping back slash is discarded. The sequence "\\" represents one literal : backslash. All of the requirements and effects of quoting on ordinary, : shell special, and special pattern characters shall apply to escaping : in this context. This clearly says that backslashes must be interpreted. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
