.\" (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) .\" .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are .\" preserved on all copies. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a .\" permission notice identical to this one .\" .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no .\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from .\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working .\" professionally. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" License. .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:35:54 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .TH FNMATCH 3 "April 19, 1993" "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME fnmatch \- match filename or pathname .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .sp .BI "int fnmatch(const char *" "pattern" ", const char *" strings ", int "flags ");" .fi .SH DESCRIPTION The .B fnmatch() checks the .I strings argument and checks if it matches .I pattern argument, which is a shell wildcard pattern. .PP The .I flags argument modifies the behaviour; it is the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following flags: .TP .B FNM_NOESCAPE If this flag is set, treat backslash as an ordinary character, instead of an escape character. .TP .B FNM_PATHNAME If this flag is set, match a slash in .I string only with a slash in .I pattern and not, for example, with a [] \- sequence containing a slash. .TP .B FNM_PERIOD If flag this is set, a leading period in .I string has to be matched exactly by a period in .IR pattern . A period is considered to be leading if it is the first character in .IR string , or if both .B FNM_PATHNAME is set and the period immediately follows a slash. .SH "RETURN VALUE" Zero if .I string matches .IR pattern , .B FNM_NOMATCH if there is no match or another value if there is an error. .SH "CONFORMING TO" proposed POSIX.2 .SH BUGS POSIX.2 is not yet an approved standard; the information in this manpage is subject to change. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR sh "(1), " glob "(3), " glob (7)