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rm -rf * #

... Did you do something like this in your *nix terminal? This mod prings the same function to Minetest!

Patterns #

The following syntaxes are currently supported:

• *: Match any combination (zero or more) of any charactors (.*)
• ?: Match exactly one any charactor (.)
• [abc], [A-Za-z]: Match one of the charactors listed inside, or in the range specified. ([abc])

Error Handling #

This mod does not check for wrong syntaxes. The mod or the player should have the responsibility to check the pattern, if it's needed.

Chatcommands #

/globkick <glob pattern> [<reason>] #

• glob pattern: The glob pattern to select players by their name
• reason: (Optional) The reason of kick

Select players by their name, and then kick them out with the reason provided.

APIs #

ALl APIs exists under the glob namespace. Please referr to it's own README for documentations.

Reviews

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  LMD 2023-01-25 12:46 UTC

  Not really useful; Name is misleading: No Glob Patterns, but rather Lua Patterns

  This does not implement *nix Glob Patterns, but rather simply uses Lua patterns. Nobody in their right mind would do rm -rf .* in their terminal - that will not remove all files, but rather only hidden files (files starting with a dot in their name)!

  The only function provided is not exactly useful; how often do you need to kick multiple players based on a pattern? I could imagine this being useful only in very rare cases where an attacker is dumb enough to make his names follow a pattern. What makes this even more useless is that the Minetest chat features tab completion for playernames.

  What I could see being useful: Actual globs, e.g. for file traversal purposes, but as an API rather than user-facing chatcommands.

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