.\" Title: amanda-match
.\" Author: Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.76.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 07/25/2012
+.\" Date: 01/10/2013
.\" Manual: Miscellanea
-.\" Source: Amanda 3.3.2
+.\" Source: Amanda 3.3.3
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "AMANDA\-MATCH" "7" "07/25/2012" "Amanda 3\&.3\&.2" "Miscellanea"
+.TH "AMANDA\-MATCH" "7" "01/10/2013" "Amanda 3\&.3\&.3" "Miscellanea"
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Several Amanda commands allow the user to specify dumps using "match expressions"\&. This manual page describes the syntax of these expressions\&.
.PP
In some places, only certain match expressions are allowed\&. However, several commands take a dump specification ("dumpspec") consisting of a sequence of several expressions intended to match particular dumps in the catalog\&. Other applications take a DLE specification which indicates a set of DLEs to be operated on\&. These formats are described below\&.
+.PP
+An expression can be disabled be preceding it with the \*(Aq=\*(Aq character, in that case, an exact match is used\&.
+.PP
+Many program have an \*(Aq\-\-exact\-match\*(Aq argument that disable expression and exact match are used\&.
.SH "HOST & DISK EXPRESSIONS"
.PP
The hosts and disks match by word\&. Each word is a glob expression, and words are separated by the character \*(Aq\&.\*(Aq for host expressions and \*(Aq/\*(Aq for disk expressions\&. You can anchor the expression on the left with a \*(Aq^\*(Aq or on the right with a \*(Aq$\*(Aq\&. The matcher is case insensitive for hosts but case sensitive for disks\&. A match succeeds if all words in the expression match contiguous words in the host or disk\&.
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