regular expressions and space

[Denis Beauchemin]

Dave a écrit :
> [root at mail2 tmp]# ls test*doc*
> test 123.doc  test123.doc
>
>
> deny    test*doc*               -       -
>
>
> test123.doc  gets denied but  test 123.doc  does not.
>
>
> Should they both be denied?
>   

Dave,

As a regular expression, "test*doc*" means "tes" followed by zero or 
more "t", followed by "do", followed by zero or more "c".

You probably want "test.*\.doc$" which means "test" followed by zero or 
more characters, followed by ".doc" and nothing else afterwards.

Denis

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