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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Navigating directories with * / . and .. Post 302758337 by bloodrule on Saturday 19th of January 2013 02:10:41 AM
Old 01-19-2013
Thanks - that helps a lot.

So how does" */./" differ from "*/." ? I seem to get slightly different results with each and still can't quite see why.

Also I understand that * and ? are called wildcards. But what are . .. and / called?
 

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STOREBACKUPSEARCH(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      STOREBACKUPSEARCH(1)

NAME
storeBackupSearch.pl - locates different versions of a file saved with storeBackup.pl. SYNOPSIS
storeBackupSearch.pl -g configFile storeBackupSearch.pl -b backupDirDir [-f configFile] [-s rule] [--absPath] [-w file] [--parJobs number] [-d level] [--once] [--print] [backupRoot . . .] DESCRIPTION
You need some basic understanding of linux and perl to use it. OPTIONS
--generate, -g generate a config file --print print configuration read from configuration file and stop --configFile, -f configuration file (instead of or additionally to parameters) --backupDir backupDirDir, -b backupDirDir top level directory of all backups --searchRule, -s rule for searching see README: 'including / excluding files and directories' --absPath, -a write result with absolute path names --writeToFile, -w write search result also to file --parJobs, -p number of parallel jobs, default = chosen automatically --debug, -d debug level, possible values are 0, 1, 2, default = 0 --once, -o show every file found only once (depending on md5 sum) backupRoot Root directories of backups where to search relative to backupDir. If no directories are specified, all backups below backupDir are chosen. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2008-2009 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README). Published under the GNU General Public License v3 or any later version perl v5.14.2 2012-06-16 STOREBACKUPSEARCH(1)
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