> I tend to disagree with your report. > > I am no native speaker of the English language, but to me it is rather > clear that "metacharacters" are simply the characters which have a > special meaning in the context and are not taken literally. > > The context is specified: "match shell pattern pattern". "performed > with the use of the fnmatch(3) library function". > > fnmatch(3) or rather glob(7) which is linked from fnmatch(3) do > describe how escaping works:
-wholename doesn't mention that it works like -name or uses the same function call, so how would I know that? Also, I wasn't able to find fnmatch(3) on my system, and auto-apt search fnmatch didn't find it either. What package contains this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
