On Monday 28 November 2005 19:38, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:06:00 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> said:
>
> Kern> On Monday 28 November 2005 15:55, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >> >>>>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:21:29 +0000, Greg Cope
> >> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Greg> I am trying to glob a load of oracle backup files. As per Stephan
> Greg> Ebelt's post these will be under /uNN dirs that are often on
>
> >> different Greg> file systems.
>
> Greg> What I am trying to do is;
>
> Greg> regex = "^\/u[0-9]{2}\/(oraback|oraarch)"
>
> Greg> But the following fail to match anything bar '/'
>
> Greg> regex = "^\/u[0-9]{2}\/(oraback|oraarch)"
> Greg> regex = "^\/u[0-9]{2}\/oraexp"
> Greg> regex = "^\/u[0-9]{2}\/oraback"
> Greg> regex = "^\/u[0-9]{2}.oraback"
>
> Greg> As expected regex = "^\/u[0-9]{2}" matches the lot.
>
> Greg> Can anyone shed any light on this or the regex code?
>
> >> The problem is that Bacula walks down the tree of directories looking
> >> for matching include/exclude patterns. When it finds an excluded
> >> directory, it doesn't look any deeper in that directory. Now /u02
> >> doesn't match any of the above, so it stops the walk before
> >> /u02/oraback is found.
> >>
> >> BTW, I don't think you need \ before / in a regex.
>
> Kern> Recently, I added something similar to this example to the FileSet
> chapter of Kern> the manual. It would be interesting to know what you
> think about the example Kern> Martin since I haven't actually "run" it. Of
> course, the example doesn't Kern> deal with more complex issues such as
> traversing subdirectories where parents Kern> may be excluded ...
>
> I found the new examples, but what the ^.?*$ is "^.?*$" supposed to mean?
Match the whole line no matter what it contains. .* doesn't seem to work on
Linux ...
I'll take another look at it.
> :-) As the manual mentions in a previous example, this regexp doesn't
> compile on FreeBSD, so the example won't work. Maybe you just want ".*",
> i.e. match anything?
>
> __Martin
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