Module Name: src
Committed By: uwe
Date: Wed Jan 19 00:33:11 UTC 2011
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man7: glob.7
Log Message:
Be consistent in using (fixed width font) literals.
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Index: src/share/man/man7/glob.7
diff -u src/share/man/man7/glob.7:1.2 src/share/man/man7/glob.7:1.3
--- src/share/man/man7/glob.7:1.2 Wed Jan 19 00:21:19 2011
+++ src/share/man/man7/glob.7 Wed Jan 19 00:33:10 2011
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: glob.7,v 1.2 2011/01/19 00:21:19 uwe Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: glob.7,v 1.3 2011/01/19 00:33:10 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: glob.7,v 1.3 2009/12/26 15:24:54 schwarze Exp $
.\"
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
or
.Ql *
characters, or
-.Dq [..]
+.Dq Li [..]
sequences.
.Pp
Globs should not be confused with the more powerful
@@ -52,21 +52,21 @@
.Pp
The pattern elements have the following meaning:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It \&?
+.It Li \&?
Matches any single character.
-.It \&*
+.It Li \&*
Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
-.It [..]
+.It Li [..]
Matches any of the characters inside the brackets.
Ranges of characters can be specified by separating two characters by a
-.Ql -
+.Ql \-
(e.g.\&
-.Dq [a0-9]
+.Dq Li [a0-9]
matches the letter
.Sq a
or any digit).
In order to represent itself, a
-.Ql -
+.Ql \-
must either be quoted or the first or last character in the character list.
Similarly, a
.Ql \&]
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@
Within a bracket expression, the name of a
.Em character class
enclosed in
-.Sq [:
+.Ql [:
and
-.Sq :]
+.Ql :]
stands for the list of all characters belonging to that class.
Supported character classes:
.Bl -column ".Li xdigit" ".Li xdigit" ".Li xdigit" -offset indent
@@ -94,10 +94,11 @@
These match characters using the macros specified in
.Xr ctype 3 .
A character class may not be used as an endpoint of a range.
-.It [!..]
-Like [..],
+.It Li [!..]
+Like
+.Li [..] ,
except it matches any character not inside the brackets.
-.It \e
+.It Li \e
Matches the character following it verbatim.
This is useful to quote the special characters
.Ql \&? ,
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@
.Ql \e
such that they lose their special meaning.
For example, the pattern
-.Dq \e\e\e\&*\e[x]\e\&?
+.Dq Li \e\e\e\&*\e[x]\e\&?
matches the string
.Dq \e\&*[x]\&? .
.El
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@
or
.Ql * ,
character or by a
-.Dq [..]
+.Dq Li [..]
sequence.
Thus,
.Pa /usr/*/*/X11
