docs: add some more details about supported regex syntax

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albertony
2025-08-28 09:04:37 +02:00
committed by Nick Craig-Wood
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@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ uses) to make things easy for users. However this does not provide
absolute control over the matching, so for advanced users rclone also
provides a regular expression syntax.
The regular expressions used are as defined in the [Go regular
expression reference](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/). Regular
expressions should be enclosed in `{{` `}}`. They will match only the
Rclone generally accepts Perl-style regular expressions, the exact syntax
is defined in the [Go regular expression reference](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/).
Regular expressions should be enclosed in `{{` `}}`. They will match only the
last path segment if the glob doesn't start with `/` or the whole path
name if it does. Note that rclone does not attempt to parse the
supplied regular expression, meaning that using any regular expression