On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, Alejandro Colomar <
alx@kernel.org> wrote:
Hi Paul,
On 2023-08-29 14:45, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-08-29 at 11:32 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> Am I missing something? Is something like that allowed anyhow?
>
> Multiple "%" are allowed, in that they won't throw an error. But, only
> the first "%" is replaced. The second (and subsequent) "%" are just
> normal characters, not pattern matching.
Thanks! That was my expectation before reading the docs. Maybe you
could reword it to be explicit that only one % is used as a wildcard.
Good morning.
The same paragraph says that after matching % the rest of the name must match exactly.
However, be careful if you want to rely on this. We fixed it just recently. 4.3 and earlier would replace all %,
Regards, Dmitry
Cheers,
Alex
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