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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I really don't think so. The documentation says nothing of the like.

Maybe someone thought it's a regex pattern, where escaping dots would make sense. But yeah, it mostly works like glob patterns instead.