Questions tagged [fnmatch]

fnmatch is both:

1. A c-language standard library function, fnmatch(…), and
2. Any one of a number of many wrapper implementations exposing the mechanism of c-language fnmatch to a higher-level language
   • i.e. Python, Ruby, GNU awk, &c.

One of the most noteworthy users of fnmatch(…) is git – specifically, patterns defined in gitignore files are applied using fnmatch(…) – q.v. the gitignore [documentation]4 and the git [source code]5 itself.

Questions about glob pattern-matching can often interchangeably refer to fnmatch patterns as well.

The full signature of the fnmatch(…) C function is:

int fnmatch(char const* pattern,
            char const* string,
                    int flags);

For details of its use, see the man page for fnmatch(3).