Hello, I've improved my filename globbing patch. The new patch is attached and replaces the previous patch. -- Casper Gielen
--- logcheck 2010-09-03 10:25:15.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/sbin/logcheck 2011-03-02 17:28:37.166884294 +0100
@@ -436,6 +436,12 @@
fi
}
+# Expand wildcards
+# eg: /dev/n*ll -> /dev/null
+glob() {
+ xargs -I{} bash -c "ls -1 {}"
+}
+
# Show all the cli options to our users.
usage() {
debug "usage: Printing usage and exiting"
@@ -658,7 +664,7 @@
mkdir "$TMPDIR/logoutput" \
|| error "Could not mkdir for log files"
if [ ! "$LOGFILE" ] && [ -r "$LOGFILES_LIST" ]; then
- egrep --text -v "(^#|^[[:space:]]*$)" "$LOGFILES_LIST" | while read file; do
+ egrep --text -v "(^#|^[[:space:]]*$)" "$LOGFILES_LIST" | glob | while read file; do
logoutput "$file"
done
elif [ "$LOGFILE" ]; then
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