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Here's a first cut at replacing the fnmatch() call with some code that knows how to distinguish "**" from "*" and also knows how to match at the tail-end of the path (at any point following a slash). The new function is based on Rich Salz's wildmat() code, which means that it doesn't currently handle "[::alpha::]" style character classes. If we want that added, we could probably merge some of the lib/fnmatch.c code into this. See if you like this. I tested the new function with a simple wildmat test suite that I found on the...

Hy, I'm going to build a bash/awk set of scripts to manage rsyncd configuration and management but I need some clarification on filter/include/exclude syntax. I'd like to use the 'find' command to scan modules tree for per-dir merge/filter file. Here is an option form find man: ----------------------- -regextype type Changes the regular expression syntax understood by -regex and

Hi Wayne, What would be really nice, and I imagine quite easy from a coding perspective would be to allow the user to apply a regex match on the full pathname of the files being transferred. Anyway, thanks for your confirmation - I have worked around this problem. Cheers, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0)

Hi all, I''m looking at changing the operatingsystemrelease fact for Red Hat. Linux currently just uses the kernel release as the operating system release, but I''ve got a client who wants the release to have both the specific distro (e.g., AS or EL) and the release (e.g., 3 or 4). Will this particularly annoy anyone? Anyone want to help make the release string work on