[nos-bbs] using wildcards in expire.dat file

[Michael Fox (N6MEF)]

As far as I know,  there is no globbing or regex capability.  You’ll need to enumerate them.

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> On Jan 27, 2022, at 19:43, Andreas Ott <andreas at naund.org> wrote:
> 
> I checked help/expire but it does not explain how to use wildcards in
> mbox_name field, or if this is even supported. The last line in our
> expire.dat file has a catch-all of
> 
> *       183
> 
> so at least that is possible. Maybe it could be like 'perlre (1)' but
> I can't tell.
> 
> I have the use case of running a week long packet messaging exercise on
> our four BBS system and we are using student mailboxes with tactical calls
> of the pattern TST001 through TST099 for this.  I would like to expire
> a subset of these with a specific timeout, for example all TST00# after
> 32 days, but all TST2## after 8 days. Please advise what my options are.
> If nothing else, we can enumerate all 100 mailboxes one per line.
> 
> Thanks, andreas de K6OTT
> -- 
> andreas at naund.org
> 
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