Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

Appendix: Configuration lists
Wildcard expressions
List of important special glob characters
The following table provides a list of important special characters for creating glob type wildcard
expressions.
Table A-6 List of important special glob characters
Character Description
? (If not between square brackets:) Matches any single character
For example, ?est matches:
best
rest
test
and others
* (If not between square brackets:) Matches any string, including the empty string
For example, b* matches:
b
best
binary3
and others
[...] Matches any of the single characters included in the square brackets
? and * are normal characters between square brackets.
For example, [a5?] matches:
a
5
?
Note: The first character must not be an ! (exclamation mark).
! Matches any single character except those following the exclamation mark
For example, [!ab] matches:
c
S
%
and others, but not:
a
b
- Is used to denote a range of characters
For example, [a-f A-F 0-5] matches:
d
F
3
and others
/ Is not matched by ? or * and cannot be included in [...] or be part of a range
This means, for example, that http://linux.die.net/* does not match the following
pathname:
http://linux.die.net/man/7/glob
The pathname is, however, matched by:
http://linux.die.net/*/*/*
368 McAfee Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide