BWILD(1)

📦 version 25.0.3, in alpine 3.24

💅 BWILD(1) — the Bareos "wildcard" engine, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for bwild, part of the Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced crew 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bwild [options] -f <data-file>

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this page is gonna give you the lowdown on the bwild command, briefly, because we respect your time 💖

It's a simple little program that lets you test wild-card expressions against a file of data. That's it. That's the whole vibe. Like a little playground where you can try your patterns out and see what matches. Iconic, honestly 🦋

👑 OPTIONS 👑

Here's the summary of options, bestie — every single one, no skips 🫶

  • -? — shows the program's version and usage. Like a little "hi, here's who I am" moment 💁‍♀️
  • -d nn — sets the debug level to nn. Turn it up and watch it spill the tea about what it's doing 🔥
  • -dt — prints a timestamp in the debug output. So you know exactly when each debug line happened ⏰
  • -f <data-file> — okay so the data-file is a filename containing lines of data that will be matched (or not matched!) against one or more patterns. When you run the program, it prompts you for a wild-card pattern, then applies it one line at a time against the data in the file. Every line that matches gets printed, preceded by its line number. Then it prompts you again for another pattern, forever, like a little loop of discovery 💫
    • enter an empty line for a pattern to terminate the program 😌
    • you can print only the lines that do not match by using the -n option
    • and you can suppress printing of line numbers with the -l option
  • -n — print lines that do not match. the hater mode of matching 🙈
  • -l — suppress line numbers. minimal, clean, no numbers, just vibes 🎀
  • -i — use case insensitive match. so HELLO and hello are literally the same thing and honestly? fair 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

fnmatch(3) — go read that one too, it's the whole matching family ykyk 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Bruno Friedmann <bruno@ioda-net.ch>. king behaviour, thank you for your service 👑

and that's the whole page fr fr, no cap, every flag accounted for 💖

Kern Sibbald · 30 October 2011 — that's the source/version and date bestie, signing off! 🦋✨🍓

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