Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 12:07:09PM -0800, Evan Silberman wrote:
> > User utilities supporting glob(7) patterns should refer to that manual,
> > rather than fnmatch(3), which doesn't actually document the pattern
> > language.
> > 
> 
> hi. there are at least two instances of "an glob" that are wrong.

whoops, corrected below

diff /usr/src
commit - 47aad511869fbab8df27a9d9220f3dfaa012d2e7
path + /usr/src
blob - abf65c7e9a0ca88ba53b20a2ffe0fe3d9f3e6ea7
file + usr.bin/diff/diff.1
--- usr.bin/diff/diff.1
+++ usr.bin/diff/diff.1
@@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ options may be specified.
 .It Fl x Ar pattern
 Exclude files and subdirectories from comparison whose basenames match
 .Ar pattern .
-Patterns are matched using shell-style globbing via
-.Xr fnmatch 3 .
+Patterns are matched using shell-style globbing as described by
+.Xr glob 7 .
 Multiple
 .Fl x
 options may be specified.
blob - 4eacbc9ad141163c49d9b11c741e8cf5fde2b456
file + usr.bin/kstat/kstat.1
--- usr.bin/kstat/kstat.1
+++ usr.bin/kstat/kstat.1
@@ -51,16 +51,16 @@ The components of arguments are as follows:
 .It Ar provider
 The name of the device providing the statistical data.
 Pattern matching with
-.Xr fnmatch 3
-is supported.
+.Xr glob 7
+patterns is supported.
 .It Ar instance
 An unsigned integer number.
 Currently, all statistics use an instance number of 0.
 .It Ar name
 A string identifying the kind of data to be shown.
 Pattern matching with
-.Xr fnmatch 3
-is supported.
+.Xr glob 7
+patterns is supported.
 .It Ar unit
 An unsigned integer number, used for example if a network device has
 multiple rings.
blob - a959bc6130b574e258ae71aab21f15cacdb93d59
file + usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
--- usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
+++ usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ locate database
 Zero matches are not considered an error.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr find 1 ,
-.Xr fnmatch 3 ,
+.Xr glob 7 ,
 .Xr locate.updatedb 8 ,
 .Xr weekly 8
 .Rs
blob - f4a1642151b3077c882c1375c3b3dc3cc0479180
file + usr.bin/tmux/tmux.1
--- usr.bin/tmux/tmux.1
+++ usr.bin/tmux/tmux.1
@@ -759,8 +759,8 @@ The start of a session name, for example
 would match a session named
 .Ql mysession .
 .It
-An
-.Xr fnmatch 3
+A
+.Xr glob 7
 pattern which is matched against the session name.
 .El
 .Pp
@@ -808,8 +808,8 @@ An exact window name, such as
 The start of a window name, such as
 .Ql mysession:mywin .
 .It
-As an
-.Xr fnmatch 3
+As a
+.Xr glob 7
 pattern matched against the window name.
 .El
 .Pp
@@ -2859,7 +2859,7 @@ other commands are not blocked from running until the 
 .Xc
 .D1 Pq alias: Ic findw
 Search for a
-.Xr fnmatch 3
+.Xr glob 7
 pattern or, with
 .Fl r ,
 regular expression
@@ -4230,8 +4230,8 @@ supports.
 .Pp
 This is an array option where each entry is a colon-separated string made up
 of a terminal type pattern (matched using
-.Xr fnmatch 3 )
-followed by a list of terminal features.
+.Xr glob 7
+patterns) followed by a list of terminal features.
 The available features are:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It 256
@@ -4287,7 +4287,8 @@ Allow terminal descriptions read using
 to be overridden.
 Each entry is a colon-separated string made up of a terminal type pattern
 (matched using
-.Xr fnmatch 3 )
+.Xr glob 7
+patterns)
 and a set of
 .Em name=value
 entries.
@@ -5625,14 +5626,14 @@ true, for example
 .Pp
 An
 .Ql m
-specifies an
-.Xr fnmatch 3
+specifies a
+.Xr glob 7
 or regular expression comparison.
 The first argument is the pattern and the second the string to compare.
 An optional argument specifies flags:
 .Ql r
 means the pattern is a regular expression instead of the default
-.Xr fnmatch 3
+.Xr glob 7
 pattern, and
 .Ql i
 means to ignore case.
@@ -5642,8 +5643,8 @@ or
 .Ql #{m/ri:^A,MYVAR} .
 A
 .Ql C
-performs a search for an
-.Xr fnmatch 3
+performs a search for a
+.Xr glob 7
 pattern or regular expression in the pane content and evaluates to zero if not
 found, or a line number if found.
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