Rules Syntax

Clog rules have a very simple syntax, which is this:

# <comment>
<section> rule <pattern> --> <action> ...

A rule must occupy one and only one line. You cannot break rules over several lines, or combined two rules on one line.

Comments

A comment begins with the '#' character, and continues until the end of the line. You can add arbitrary descriptions using comments, or you can disable a rule by putting a '#' at the beginning of the line. Example rule file fragment:

# This is a rule that finds lines containing the word 'ignore'
# and removes them from the output.
default rule "ignore" --> suppress   # Does not check for word boundaries