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Re: watch file help



Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:07 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > Simply having http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz
> > in the debian/watch files downloads an html file.
>
> Something like:
>
>     opts=filenamemangle=s/\?format=raw$// \
>     http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz\?format=raw

General regex advice: Remember to keep the regex tight where feasible,
so as not to unexpectedly match badly-formed strings. Use ‘(.+)’ to
ensure the version string is not empty.

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