Joey Hess writes ("Re: Bug#350570: dh_install -X behaviour is strange and
ill-documented"):
> > Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from
> > being installed.
>
> "contains" vs "matches" or "expands to" indicates a substring match, not
> a regexp or glob. Pierre Habouzit suggested in #349070 that it use
> -wholename \*item\* after escaping glob characters in the item, and I
> suppose I can do that.
Right.
I don't have a particular opinion about this, but since at the moment
anything containing regexp metacharacters except `.' (which includes
all strings that have a different meaning as globs than as literal
strings) is mishandled, you certainly have the option of changing the
documentation now to specify a more sophisticated kind of matching,
and then to implement that. I mean that doing so shouldn't be a
compatibility problem.
Given that choice, it seems to me that a glob match (allowing \\ for
escaping glob metacharacters) is the right point in the tradeoff
between power and simplicity/complexity.
(I can't seem to find -wholename in the info docs for find on this
more-or-less-sarge system. Is this a new name for -path ?)
Ian.
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