Installation and User's Guide

Related concepts“Wildcard characters” on page 527Include and exclude groups of files with wildcard charactersYou can use wildcard characters to include or exclude groups of files.To specify groups of files that you want to include or exclude, use the wildcardcharacters listed in the following table. This table applies to include and excludestatements only.A very large include-exclude list can decrease backup performance. Use wildcardsand eliminate unnecessary include statements to keep the list as short as possible.Table 13. Wildcard and other special charactersCharacter Function? The match one character matches any single character except the directoryseparator; it does not match the end of the string. For example:v The pattern ab?, matches abc, but does not match ab, abab, or abzzz.v The pattern ab?rs, matches abfrs, but does not match abrs, or abllrs.v The pattern ab?ef?rs, matches abdefjrs, but does not match abefrs, abdefrs,or abefjrs.v The pattern ab??rs, matches abcdrs, abzzrs, but does not match abrs, abjrs,or abkkkrs.* The match-all character. For example:v The pattern ab*, matches ab, abb, abxxx, but does not match a, b, aa, bb.v The pattern ab*rs, matches abrs, abtrs, abrsrs, but does not match ars, oraabrs, abrss.v The pattern ab*ef*rs, matches abefrs, abefghrs, but does not match abefr,abers.v The pattern abcd.*, matches abcd.c, abcd.txt, but does not match abcd,abcdc, or abcdtxt.\... The match-n character matches zero or more directories.[ The open character-class character begins the enumeration of a characterclass. For example:xxx[abc] matches xxxa, xxxb, or xxxc.– The character-class range includes characters from the first character to thelast character specified. For example:xxx[a-z] matches xxxa, xxxb, xxxc, ... xxxz.This format should not be used to specify remote drives in an excludestatement.\ The literal escape character. When used within a character class, it treats thenext character literally. When used outside of a character class, it is nottreated in this way. For example, if you want to include the ']' in a characterclass, enter [...\]...]. The escape character removes the usual meaning of ']' asthe close character-class character.] The close character-class character ends the enumeration of a character class.: The drive separator character separates a file specification. The characterbefore the colon identifies a drive letter. The characters after the colon identifyfile specification or pattern. For example:d:\direct\file.namChapter 2. Configure the Tivoli Storage Manager client 73