Hi,
the attached patch IMHO improves the man page regarding use of the
backslash as escape character in wildcard patterns.
Thanks,
Erik
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From: Erik Auerswald <auers...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 10:19:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify escaping in wildcard patterns documentation
A single backslash in front of a non-wildcard character is removed
from a wildcard pattern, but not from a simple pattern without
wildcard characters. Document this in the man page.
---
rsync.yo | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index dfb541a..b4ac949 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -2754,6 +2754,8 @@ itemization(
it() a '[' introduces a character class, such as [a-z] or [[:alpha:]].
it() in a wildcard pattern, a backslash can be used to escape a wildcard
character, but it is matched literally when no wildcards are present.
+ Any unescaped backslash is removed from a wildcard pattern, but not from
+ a simple pattern without wildcard characters.
it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) or a "**",
then it is matched against the full pathname, including any leading
directories. If the pattern doesn't contain a / or a "**", then it is
--
1.7.9.5
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