You can also use all the following in filter expressions in your search patterns.
Table 25–19 fnsearch Filter Expression Operators
Filter Expression Operator |
Symbols and Forms |
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Logical operators |
or, and, not |
Parentheses for grouping |
( ) |
Relational operators: Compare an attribute to a supplied value |
== True if at least one attribute value is equal to the supplied value. != True if none of the attribute values are equal to the supplied value. < True if at least one attribute value is less than the supplied value. <= True if at least one attribute value is less than or equal to the supplied value. > True if at least one attribute value is greater than the supplied value. >= True if at least one attribute value is greater than or equal to the supplied value. ~= True if at least one attribute value matches the supplied value according to some context-specific approximate matching criterion. This criterion must subsume strict equality. |
Example: |
% fnsearch name "not (make == 'olds' and year == 1983)" |
Substitution tokens: Helpful when writing shell scripts; allow the use of OSI OIDs and DCE UUIDs when used with the -O and -U options |
%a for attribute %s for string %i for identifier %v for attribute value (only fn_attr_syntax_ascii is currently supported) |
Example: |
The following three examples are equivalent. % fnsearch name "color == 'red'" % fnsearch name "%a == 'red'" color % fnsearch name "%a == %s" color red |
Wild card strings |
*, *string, string*, str*ing, %s* |
Extended operators |
'name'(wildcarded_string), 'reftype'(identifier), 'addrtype' (identifier) |
Example: |
Search for objects with names starting with "Bill" and IQ attributes over 80. % fnsearch name "'name'('bill'*) and IQ > 80" |
See the fnsearch man page for detailed information about creating search patterns.