Fixed #1879 - Added to tidy documentation

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index de0386c8f..877629957 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 0.25.0
+    Fixed #1879 - Added to tidy documentation
+
     Fixed #1881 - Added md5lite explanation
 
     Fixed #1877 - Tidy type reference update for use of 0
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/tidy.rb b/lib/puppet/type/tidy.rb
index 2b0c153f0..a0b0fbe6c 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/type/tidy.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/tidy.rb
@@ -20,11 +20,21 @@ Puppet::Type.newtype(:tidy) do
     end
 
     newparam(:matches) do
-        desc "One or more file glob patterns, which restrict the list of
-            files to be tidied to those whose basenames match at least one
-            of the patterns specified.  Multiple patterns can be specified
-            using an array.
-            
+        desc "One or more (shell type) file glob patterns, which restrict
+	    the list of files to be tidied to those whose basenames match
+	    at least one of the patterns specified. Multiple patterns can
+	    be specified using an array.
+                    
+                    tidy { "/tmp":
+		    	age => "1w",
+			recurse => false,
+                        matches => [ "[0-9]pub*.tmp", "*.temp", "tmpfile?" ]
+                    }
+
+            The example above removes files from /tmp if they are one week
+	    old or older, are not in a subdirectory and match one of the shell
+	    globs given.
+
             Note that the patterns are matched against the
             basename of each file -- that is, your glob patterns should not
             have any '/' characters in them, since you're only specifying