regular expressions and space

[Jason Voorhees]

Hi:

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Dave <wintermutecx at gmail.com> wrote:
> [root at mail2 tmp]# ls test*doc*
> test 123.doc  test123.doc
>
Those aren't regular expressions, they're only wildcards.
>
> deny    test*doc*               -       -
>

test*doc matches :

tesdoc
testdoc
testtttdoc
testttt....ttdoc

* is any character any times in wildcards expressions
* is 0, 1 or more occurrences of the previous caracter in regular expressions
. is any character in regular expressions

>
> test123.doc  gets denied but  test 123.doc  does not.
>
If you want to deny files of the form "test*doc*" (in wildcards syntax
and without quotes) you should write the rule like this:

deny    test.*doc.*               -       -

>
> Should they both be denied?

There are a lof of regular expressions tutorials at Internet that
could be useful to you.

Bye :)

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