GLOB(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # GLOB(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual
NAME # glob - shell-style pattern matching
DESCRIPTION # Globbing characters (wildcards) are special characters used to perform pattern matching of pathnames and command arguments in the csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1) shells as well as the C library functions fnmatch(3) and glob(3). A glob pattern is a word containing one or more unquoted ‘?’ or ‘*’ characters, or “[.
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LOCATE(1) - General Commands Manual # LOCATE(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # locate - find filenames quickly
SYNOPSIS # locate [-bciS] [-d database] [-l limit] pattern …
DESCRIPTION # The locate utility searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern. By default, the database is recomputed weekly(8) and contains the pathnames of all files which are publicly accessible.
Shell globbing and quoting characters (’\*’, ‘?’, ‘\’, ‘[’, and ‘]’) may be used in pattern, although they will have to be escaped from the shell.
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PATTERNS(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # PATTERNS(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual
NAME # patterns - Lua’s pattern matching rules
DESCRIPTION # Pattern matching in httpd(8) is based on the implementation of the Lua scripting language and provides a simple and fast alternative to the regular expressions (REs) that are described in re_format(7). Patterns are described by regular strings, which are interpreted as patterns by the pattern-matching “find” and “match” functions.
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