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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-03-16 16:40:01 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-03-16 16:40:01 (GMT)
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Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
not familiar with Unix terminology.
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@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
\section{\module{fnmatch} ---
- \UNIX{} shell style pathname pattern matching.}
-\declaremodule{standard}{fnmatch}
+ \UNIX{} style filename pattern matching}
-\modulesynopsis{\UNIX{} shell style pathname pattern matching.}
+\declaremodule{standard}{fnmatch}
+\modulesynopsis{\UNIX{} shell style filename pattern matching.}
This module provides support for \UNIX{} shell-style wildcards, which
are \emph{not} the same as regular expressions (which are documented
-in the \module{re}\refstmodindex{re} module). The special characters
-used in shell-style wildcards are:
+in the \refmodule{re}\refstmodindex{re} module). The special
+characters used in shell-style wildcards are:
+\index{filenames!wildcard expansion}
\begin{list}{}{\leftmargin 0.5in \labelwidth 0.45in}
\item[\code{*}] matches everything
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ Test whether \var{filename} matches \var{pattern}, returning true or
false; the comparision is case-sensitive.
\end{funcdesc}
+
\begin{seealso}
-\seemodule{glob}{Shell-style path expansion}
+ \seemodule{glob}{Shell-style path expansion}
\end{seealso}