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<div>Jeremy. Thanks very much! That worked. I was googling and trying to read all the regex tutorials I could find. I tried pcre on the server, but wasn't able to get the combinations right.</div>
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<div>I really appreciate the help!</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jeremy Laidman <<a href="mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au">jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:56:26 +1100<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Don Kuhlman <<a href="mailto:don.kuhlman@schawk.com">don.kuhlman@schawk.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Xymon Email List <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Xymon] File monitor not working in Xymon - using file list generated by wildcard<br>
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On 6 October 2012 05:49, Don Kuhlman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Don.Kuhlman@schawk.com" target="_blank">Don.Kuhlman@schawk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi folks. I believe the issue is my regex on the file name in the analysis.cfg.</div>
<div>I've used about 15 different values and the only thing I seem to get working is using the direct full filename vs, a regex to match any files.</div>
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<div>In regular expressions the asterisk is not a wildcard in the same way as in DOS/Windows. Instead, it is read as "zero or more of the previous character or symbol." So what you probably want is ".*". The dot "." is a one-character-width wildcard, which
is why it needs to be escaped if you want to match a literal dot. So ".*" means zero or more of any character.</div>
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<div>Also, a regular expression match is applied only when the match string STARTS with a percent.</div>
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<div>However, using any combos that I can think of as a regex do not:</div>
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<div>Here, you are asking to match zero or more slash characters before a ".sql".</div>
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<div># FILE /Volumes/MySQL_Backups/%*\.sql red mtime<600</div>
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<div>Doesn't start with percent.</div>
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<div>Again, ".*" rather than "*".</div>
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<div>Can anyone suggest a way to format the analysis.cfg statement to match anything that ends in .sql ?</div>
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<div>Try this:</div>
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<div>This should go red if the matching file is older than 1 day.</div>
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