In the two actions files and tidy you define directory
names at which file checking or tidying searches should start. One
economical feature is that you can define a whole group of directories
at which identical searches should start in one fell swoop by making use
of wildcards. For example, the directory names
/usr/*/*
/bla/*/ab?/bla
represent all of the directories (and only directories) which match the above wildcard strings. Cfengine opens each matching directory and iterates the action over all directories which match.
The symbol `?' matches any single character, whereas `*' matches any number of characters, in accordance with shell file-substitution wildcards.
When this notation is used in directory names, it always defines the
starting point for a search. It does not tell the command how to
search, only where to begin. The pattern directive in
tidy can be used to specify patterns when tidying files and under
files all files are considered, See section tidy, and section files,
section Recursion.
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