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WILDMAT(3)							    WILDMAT(3)

NAME
       wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matching

SYNOPSIS
       int
       wildmat(text, pattern)
	   char	      *text;
	   char	      *pattern;

DESCRIPTION
       Wildmat	compares  the text against the pattern and returns non-zero if
       the pattern matches the text.  The pattern is interpreted according  to
       rules  similar  to  shell filename wildcards, and not as a full regular
       expression such as those handled by the grep(1) family of  programs  or
       the regex(3) or regexp(3) set of routines.

       The pattern is interpreted as follows:

       \x     Turns off the special meaning of x and matches it directly; this
	      is used mostly before a question mark or asterisk,  and  is  not
	      special inside square brackets.

       ?      Matches any single character.

       *      Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

       [x...y]
	      Matches  any  single  character  specified  by the set x...y.  A
	      minus sign may be used to indicate a range of characters.	  That
	      is,  [0-5abc]  is	 a  shorthand  for [012345abc].	 More than one
	      range may appear inside a character set;	[0-9a-zA-Z._]  matches
	      almost  all  of the legal characters for a host name.  The close
	      bracket, ], may be used if it is the first character in the set.
	      The minus sign, -, may be used if it is either the first or last
	      character in the set.

       [^x...y]
	      This matches any character not in the set x...y, which is inter‐
	      preted as described above.  For example, [^]-] matches any char‐
	      acter other than a close bracket or minus sign.

HISTORY
       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> in 1986, and posted to Usenet
       several	times  since then, most notably in comp.sources.misc in March,
       1991.

       Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@diku.dk> enhanced  the  multi-asterisk  failure
       mode in early 1991.

       Rich and Lars increased the efficiency of star patterns and reposted it
       to comp.sources.misc in April, 1991.

       Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> added minus sign and close bracket  han‐
       dling in June, 1991.

       This is revision 1.10, dated 1992/04/03.

SEE ALSO
       grep(1), regex(3), regexp(3).

								    WILDMAT(3)
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