(Updated on 18th Jun 1995 to work with NCSA-HTTPD-1.4.1)
W3 Search Engine for finding files with their names on FTP.FUNET.FI
The key-item accepts UNIX sh glob-patterns with some exceptions, examples:
-
part_of_file_nam
- matches all files which contain this particular character sequence
in their names
-
*patt*rn*
- matches all files whose name contains the full pattern, but
unlike with grep, the star (*) does not
require prefixing with a dot to match any number of any characters
-
*patt?rn
- matches any file whose name ends with given patt?rn,
however the third-last character can be of any character
-
msdos/*/winup9
- this does not match anything, because:
- there exists a wild-card tag
- there doesn't exist a wild-card at the begining, so the path-names
should start with "msdos/"
- there doesn't exist a wild-card at the end, so the path-names
should end with "/winup9"
-
*msdos/*/winup9*
- as an opposite to the previous example, this would work
Lookup is done on full paths, thus if some directory matches
the search key, a lot of files under it may be listed.
Thus: Do not search super-common patterns, like:
unix, msdos, win, ...
Note: A space character can not be submitted via WWW-browser, thus
use full-form wild-card expressions where you replace space with `?'.