Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: How to Escape Globbing Patterns?

[dean gaudet]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Dave Howorth wrote:

> Andrew Price wrote:
> > On 12/01/07 11:57, Andrew Price wrote:
> >> I'm using --include-globbing-filelist. If I wanted to specify a file in
> >> a file list that has [] in the file name, e.g. myfile[foo].txt, how
> >> would I escape the square brackets so that they aren't treated as a
> >> globbing pattern?
> > 
> > I apologise for "bumping" this thread. Does somebody have an answer to
> > the above question? Even if it's "it can't be done, you should work
> > around it" it would be helpful to me. I'm just trying to close a bug in
> > a project that relates to it. Let me know if the question is worded badly.
> 
> I'm new to rdiff-backup and I don't know python, so I'm not sure I'll be
> much help, but I guess any answer is better than none. The code that
> implements this appears to be in selection.py and it says:
> 
>   def glob_to_re(self, pat):
>     """Returned regular expression equivalent to shell glob pat
> 
>     Currently only the ?, *, [], and ** expressions are supported.
>     Ranges like [a-z] are also currently unsupported.  There is no
>     way to quote these special characters.
> 
> So I guess the answer is "it can't be done", or rather, "you'll need to
> hack this code".

patches welcome.  include a man page patch as well.

-dean