Hello,
I'm struggling with the PCRE ignore patterns. I found
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html to explain the patterns and pcregrep
from http://linux.die.net/man/1/pcregrep to test them, but I'm not getting
the results I'm expecting. I don't know if that is a good tool to use or
not.
# pcregrep -drecurse ./*.bak /
This command looked inside of every file instead of just the directory
listings.
So, in the root, I did
# find / -name '*' > /home/listing2.txt
That gave me a list of all the files, with complete paths.
So now I use the command
# pcregrep ./*.bak listing2.txt
That command gave me all the files with "bak" anywhere in the name, but only
two directories or deeper:
/var/backups/gshadow.bak
/usr/share/app-install/icons/gnomebaker.xpm
...
Not
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak
I didn't want "gnomebaker" excluded at this time, so I used the command
# pcregrep /*[.]bak listing2.txt
This gave me only the files ending with ".bak", ".bakup" and so forth. This
is good.
So a couple questions.
1) Every example provided with fsvs starts with ./
Is there something magical about that in fsvs?
Or do you want to start two directories down?
2) The docs have the pattern ./ **.bak
That matches everything in pcregrep.
How does that pattern work?
Sorry for the long post.
Thanks,
Bill
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