nft script file, using include with wildcards

nft script file, using include with wildcards

[Alberto Spin]

Hello,

I'm using nftables 0.7 (rocko branch)

I've got a nft script file that contains the following line:

# include all rule files (alphabetical order)
include "*.rules"

When I execute this script I get the following error:

./firewall.nft:25:1-18: Error: Could not open file "*.rules": No such file or directory
include "*.rules"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It doesn't matter whether the are .rules present or not.
When I change the line into "include foo.rules", everything works as intended.

Why is this error generated, the documentations states:

INCLUDE FILES

....
Include statements support the usual shell wildcard symbols (*,?,[]). Having no matches for an include statement is not an error, if wildcard symbols are used in the include statement. This allows having potentially empty include directories for statements like include "/etc/firewall/rules/*". The wildcard matches are loaded in alphabetical order. Files beginning with dot (.) are not matched by include statements.  

What am I missing here?

 Kind Regards,

Alberto

 

Re: nft script file, using include with wildcards

[Florian Westphal]

Alberto Spin <a.spin@datawatt.nl> wrote:
> I'm using nftables 0.7 (rocko branch)
> 
> I've got a nft script file that contains the following line:
> 
> # include all rule files (alphabetical order)
> include "*.rules"
> 
> When I execute this script I get the following error:
> 
> ./firewall.nft:25:1-18: Error: Could not open file "*.rules": No such file or directory
> include "*.rules"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wildcard support was added in 0.8.