glob, re_format(7)

On 15/08/2023 20:40, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 07:46:13PM +0100, Graham Perrin wrote:
>
>> Is there a good manual page alternative to 
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)>?
>
> That Wikipedia article describes the library functions fnmatch() and 
> glob(), which both exist and have man pages in FreeBSD (manual section 
> 3).  The shells also document their filename matching, in their man 
> pages.


Obscurely, via 
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gstat&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release#DESCRIPTION> 
for gstat(8) I stumbled into:

     re_format(7)
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re_format&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-release>

Not what I was seeking, originally, however it does contain much of what 
I want. The online view (above) is somewhat difficult to read due to the 
peculiar appearance of ` characters, there's no such problem when the 
page is viewed in a console or terminal.

I could/should have found re_format(7) via the SEE ALSO section of 
regex(3), but I didn't get that far down the page because I was turned 
off by the preceding sections :-)