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Expand the backslash description a bit more in excludes.

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Wayne Davison
2014-04-19 10:16:00 -07:00
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@@ -2754,6 +2754,10 @@ itemization(
it() a '[' introduces a character class, such as [a-z] or [[:alpha:]].
it() in a wildcard pattern, a backslash can be used to escape a wildcard
character, but it is matched literally when no wildcards are present.
This means that there is an extra level of backslash removal when a
pattern contains wildcard characters compared to a pattern that has none.
e.g. if you add a wildcard to "foo\bar" (which matches the backslash) you
would need to use "foo\\bar*" to avoid the "\b" becoming just "b".
it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) or a "**",
then it is matched against the full pathname, including any leading
directories. If the pattern doesn't contain a / or a "**", then it is