Supported Wildcards for IBM i File System

You can use a wildcard to represent one or more characters when you define the content for backups and filters for a subclient.

Note

If the subclient content consists of wildcard characters and no eligible files are found for the backup, the backup operation can still successfully complete.

Wildcards

Description

Examples

*

Any number of characters.

Use this wildcard in the following scenarios

  • Back up all files of a specific extension

  • Back up all files under a specific directory

  • Back up all files with a specific file extension that start with the pattern

*.doc backs up or filters all files that have a .doc file extension (for example, status.doc, mission.doc) on all partitions and paths on the client computer.

/Test/*.doc backs up all that have a .doc file extension in the /Test directory.

a*.so backs up all files that have the .so file extension, and start with the letter "a" (for example, alsvc.so, advdcc.so).

/Finance/Test* backs up all the files and directories that start with the string "Test" under the /Finance directory.

?

A single character.

Use this wildcard in the following scenario:

  • All files (or directories) that match the character pattern before and after the ?

Tip

To match multiple characters, use a ? for each character that you want to match.

  • Applies only to the subclient content for IFS type.

  • Does not apply to Optimized scan.

  • Does not apply to filters and exceptions.

/access? backs up or filters any directory or file that starts with the string "access", followed by one character (for example, access1 or access5).

/Class/report? backs up any directory or file under the /Class directory that starts with the string "report" and contains one character after the string (for example, "report1").

[]

A range of characters.

  • Applies only to the subclient content for IFS type.

  • Does not apply to Optimized scan.

  • Does not apply to filters and exceptions.

/[a-m]* backs up or filters all files that start with the letters a-m on the / (root) partition.

/[AEIOU]*.doc backs up files that have a .doc file extension and that start with the letters "A", "E", "I", "O", or "U".

/Finance/report[1-47-9] backs up the following files in the /Finance directory:

  • report1

  • report2

  • report4

  • report7

  • report8

  • report9

    /Department-[A-CS] backs up the following files:

  • Department-A

  • Department-B

  • Department-C

  • Department-S

[!]

The negation of a set or range of characters.

Use the wildcard in the following scenario:

  • Back up all files in a directory that do not match the characters specified in the wildcard

    • Applies only to the subclient content for IFS type.

    • Does not apply to Optimized scan.

    • Does not apply to filters and exceptions.

/root/[!AEIOU]*.doc backs up or filters files that have a .doc file extension in the /root directory and that start with a letter other than the letters "A", "E", "I", "O", or "U".

**

Any number of characters across any number of path levels.

  • Applies only to the subclient content for IFS type.

  • Does not apply to Optimized scan.

  • Does not apply to filters and exceptions.

/**/move.cpp - backs up or filters the file named move.cpp that is in any directory. (for example, /root/newapp/move.cpp and /opt/kde3/src/move.cpp)

/etc/** - backs up all directories and files under the /etc directory. All sub-directories are included in the backup.

***

Applies only to filters and exceptions.

Use this wildcard in the following scenarios:

  • To filter the directory/library and the objects that are under it.

  • To add an exception to the filter.

  • Does not apply to Optimized scan.

The filter /test/mydir/*** filters the mydir directory and its contents.

The filter /test/*** and the exception /test/mydir/*** backs up the mydir directory and all the contents of that directory.

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