>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:52:49 -0600, Stuart McGraw said:
> 
> On 06/23/2011 04:26 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:25:24 -0600, Stuart McGraw said:
> [...]
> >> I have not been seen in the Bacula manual a description of exactly 
> >> how filenames match wildcard specs (e.g. does "a*b" match "a/b"?).  
> > 
> > Yes, that is the problem.  "/home/*/.*" matches 
> > "/home/smcg4191/Maildir/.foo"
> > :-(  You'll probably have to use regex for that one.
> > 
> >> Is one available somewhere?
> > 
> > Look at man fnmatch.  Bacula can pass the FNM_CASEFOLD flag if 
> > IgnoreCase=yes
> > is specified, but that is the only documented option.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sadly, the linux man pages I looked at didn't give any
> description of matching semantics but they do say it is
> POSIX.2 conformant so it is possible to track down its
> behavior that way.
> 
> It looks like Bacula contains its own implementation of
> fnmatch so it should be possible for the Bacula documentation 
> to describe its behavior directly without passing the buck 
> to the OS docs.

The Bacula implementation was taken from OpenBSD, so it should match the doc
at http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi.


> fnmatch has a FNM_PATHNAME option that will cause "*" et.al.
> not to match slashes.  Has there ever been consideration given
> to allowing some form of Wild* directive that would use that
> option?  It seems like that would have solved my problem and
> make many FileSet rules more intuitive.  The current matching
> rules make it pretty easy to exclude more than one intended.

There is an old undocumented option "Enhanced Wild = yes" that passes
FNM_PATHNAME but noone seems to know what it's real purpose was (it used to
use a completely different implementation of fnmatch).

I recommend using regexs for these cases.

__Martin

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