# Supported Wildcards for NDMP

You can use wildcards to define content and filters for a subclient.

Before adding wildcards for subclient content or filters, review the vendor-specific guidelines:

- Guidelines for Adding Subclient Content

- Filter Guidelines

Note

- When you use wildcards to specify subclient content, the content path appears in italics.

- You can use more than one type of wildcard to define subclient content (for example, /[A-L]*).

- To treat wildcard symbols as literals in the subclient content and not as wildcards, escape the character by adding a back slash (\). For example, /FS\?.

## Wildcards

Wildcards | Description
--- | ---
* | Matches any number of characters. Used to match all objects. This wildcard is used in the following scenarios: Back up all files of a specific extension. Back up all files under a specific directory. Back up all files of a specific extension where the file name starts with a specific pattern.
? | Matches any one character. Used to match all files (or directories) for which any one character in the file name or the directory name is variable.
[] | Matches a set or range of characters enclosed in square brackets. Numbers within square brackets are treated as single digits, and a dash between two digits indicates the complete range of numbers between those two digits.
[!] | Matches any single character that is not in the listed set or range of characters. You can use the wildcard in the following scenario: Back up all files in a directory except the files for which the name starts with any character from the specified set or range of characters.

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