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diff --git a/man3/fnmatch.3 b/man3/fnmatch.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..07e577843 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/fnmatch.3 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.\" (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" License. +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:35:54 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified Mon Oct 16 00:16:29 2000 following Joseph S. Myers +.\" +.TH FNMATCH 3 2000-10-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +fnmatch \- match filename or pathname +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <fnmatch.h> +.sp +.BI "int fnmatch(const char *" "pattern" ", const char *" string ", int " flags ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B fnmatch() +function checks whether the +.I string +argument matches the +.I pattern +argument, which is a shell wildcard pattern. +.PP +The +.I flags +argument modifies the behaviour; it is the bitwise OR of zero or more +of the following flags: +.TP +.B FNM_NOESCAPE +If this flag is set, treat backslash as an ordinary character, +instead of an escape character. +.TP +.B FNM_PATHNAME +If this flag is set, match a slash in +.I string +only with a slash in +.I pattern +and not, for example, with a [] \- sequence containing a slash. +.TP +.B FNM_PERIOD +If this flag is set, a leading period in +.I string +has to be matched exactly by a period in +.IR pattern . +A period is considered to be leading if it is the first character in +.IR string , +or if both +.B FNM_PATHNAME +is set and the period immediately follows a slash. +.TP +.B FNM_FILE_NAME +This is a GNU synonym for \fBFNM_PATHNAME\fR. +.TP +.B FNM_LEADING_DIR +If this flag (a GNU extension) is set, the pattern is considered to be +matched if it matches an initial segment of +.I string +which is followed by a slash. This flag is mainly for the internal +use of glibc and is only implemented in certain cases. +.TP +.B FNM_CASEFOLD +If this flag (a GNU extension) is set, the pattern is matched +case-insensitively. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +Zero if +.I string +matches +.IR pattern , +.B FNM_NOMATCH +if there is no match or another non-zero value if there is an error. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +ISO/IEC 9945-2: 1993 (POSIX.2). The +.BR FNM_FILE_NAME ", " FNM_LEADING_DIR ", and " FNM_CASEFOLD +flags are GNU extensions. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR sh (1), +.BR glob (3), +.BR scandir (3), +.BR glob (7) |