</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para>Most of the fields support a shell style pattern matching. The following
+ <para>Most of the fields support shell-style pattern matching. The following
pattern characters are supported:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>*</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Matches zero, or any number of characters.</para>
+ <para>Matches zero or more characters.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>Matches any single character specified within the brackets. For
example, the pattern string 'tty[SR]' would match either 'ttyS' or 'ttyR'.
- Ranges are also supported within this match with the '-' character.
- For example, to match on the range of all digits, the pattern [0-9] would
+ Ranges are also supported via the '-' character.
+ For example, to match on the range of all digits, the pattern [0-9] could
be used. If the first character following the '[' is a '!', any characters
not enclosed are matched.</para>
</listitem>