(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 `?'.