1 FNMATCH(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros FNMATCH(5)
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5 NAME
6 fnmatch - file name pattern matching
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8 DESCRIPTION
9 The pattern matching notation described below is used to specify
10 patterns for matching strings in the shell. Historically, pattern
11 matching notation is related to, but slightly different from, the
12 regular expression notation. For this reason, the description of the
13 rules for this pattern matching notation is based on the description of
14 regular expression notation described on the regex(5) manual page.
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16 Patterns Matching a Single Character
17 The following patterns matching a single character match a single
18 character: ordinary characters, special pattern characters and pattern
19 bracket expressions. The pattern bracket expression will also match a
20 single collating element.
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23 An ordinary character is a pattern that matches itself. It can be any
24 character in the supported character set except for NUL, those special
25 shell characters that require quoting, and the following three special
26 pattern characters. Matching is based on the bit pattern used for
27 encoding the character, not on the graphic representation of the
28 character. If any character (ordinary, shell special, or pattern
29 special) is quoted, that pattern will match the character itself. The
30 shell special characters always require quoting.
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33 When unquoted and outside a bracket expression, the following three
34 characters will have special meaning in the specification of patterns:
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36 ?
37 A question-mark is a pattern that will match any character.
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217 /foo/bar/x*/bam
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219 search permission is needed for directories / and foo,
220 search and read permissions are needed for directory bar,
221 and search permission is needed for each x* directory.
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223 If the pattern matches any existing filenames or pathnames,
224 the pattern will be replaced with those filenames and
225 pathnames, sorted according to the collating sequence in
226 effect in the current locale. If the pattern contains an
227 invalid bracket expression or does not match any existing
228 filenames or pathnames, the pattern string is left
229 unchanged.
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231 SEE ALSO
232 find(1), ksh(1), fnmatch(3C), regex(5)
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236 March 28, 1995 FNMATCH(5)
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1 FNMATCH(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros FNMATCH(5)
2
3
4
5 NAME
6 fnmatch - file name pattern matching
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8 DESCRIPTION
9 The pattern matching notation described below is used to specify
10 patterns for matching strings in the shell. Historically, pattern
11 matching notation is related to, but slightly different from, the
12 regular expression notation. For this reason, the description of the
13 rules for this pattern matching notation is based on the description of
14 regular expression notation described on the regex(5) manual page.
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16 Patterns Matching a Single Character
17 The following patterns match a single character: ordinary characters,
18 special pattern characters and pattern bracket expressions. The pattern
19 bracket expression will also match a single collating element.
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21
22 An ordinary character is a pattern that matches itself. It can be any
23 character in the supported character set except for NUL, those special
24 shell characters that require quoting, and the following three special
25 pattern characters. Matching is based on the bit pattern used for
26 encoding the character, not on the graphic representation of the
27 character. If any character (ordinary, shell special, or pattern
28 special) is quoted, that pattern will match the character itself. The
29 shell special characters always require quoting.
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32 When unquoted and outside a bracket expression, the following three
33 characters will have special meaning in the specification of patterns:
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35 ?
36 A question-mark is a pattern that will match any character.
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39 *
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216 /foo/bar/x*/bam
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218 search permission is needed for directories / and foo,
219 search and read permissions are needed for directory bar,
220 and search permission is needed for each x* directory.
221
222 If the pattern matches any existing filenames or pathnames,
223 the pattern will be replaced with those filenames and
224 pathnames, sorted according to the collating sequence in
225 effect in the current locale. If the pattern contains an
226 invalid bracket expression or does not match any existing
227 filenames or pathnames, the pattern string is left
228 unchanged.
229
230 SEE ALSO
231 find(1), ksh(1), fnmatch(3C), regex(5)
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235 June 14, 2015 FNMATCH(5)
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