On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 01:37:48 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > > IMHO the man page should explicitly mention that if the parameter to -S > > > starts with a slash, the parameter is taken as complete file name while > > > it is taken as substring match on path and file name otherwise. > > > > Indeed, this is not clear at all. I'll document it for 1.18.x. > > Thanks, appreciated! > > > The actual behavior is: > > > > If the first character is any of "*[?/" then it will be considered a > > pattern, and it will be surrounded by *, as in "*string*". > > I think there is a "not" missing before "any": If it starts with a > pattern character or the root path, no asterisks for substring > matching should be added.
Sorry for the confusion, yes, that was a botched sentence after some rearrangment. :) > > If the string contains any of "*[?\\", then it's considered a > > glob pattern. Otherwise a literal path lookup is performed. > > It probably should be mentioned that this check is done after the > potential adding of asterisks around the pattern as mentioned above, > i.e. that those are sequential checks and not either/or. At least > that's how I read the code after line 414 of src/querycmd.c Sure, this was just a quick explanation for your convenience (which failed anyway as you ended up checking the code :). I'll be rewording it a bit when adding it to the man page. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
