(Updated on 18th Jun 1995 to work with NCSA-HTTPD-1.4.1)

## W3 Search Engine for finding files with their names on FTP.FUNET.FI

## The key-item accepts UNIX sh glob-patterns with some exceptions, examples:

    part_of_file_nam

  matches all files which contain this particular character sequence in their names

    *patt*rn*

  matches all files whose name contains the full pattern, but unlike with grep, the star (*) does not require prefixing with a dot to match any number of any characters

    *patt?rn

  matches any file whose name ends with given patt?rn, however the third-last character can be of any character

    msdos/*/winup9

  this does not match anything, because:
  - there exists a wild-card tag
  - there doesn't exist a wild-card at the begining, so the path-names should start with "msdos/"
  - there doesn't exist a wild-card at the end, so the path-names should end with "/winup9"

    *msdos/*/winup9*

  as an opposite to the previous example, this would work

### Lookup is done on full paths, thus if some directory matches the search key, a lot of files under it may be listed.

Thus: Do not search super-common patterns, like:

            unix, msdos, win, ...

Note: A space character can not be submitted via WWW-browser, thus use full-form wild-card expressions where you replace space with `?'.