File Selection Wildcards

adTempus supports the following standard wildcards for file name matching:

?

Matches exactly one character

*

Matches 0 or more characters

When used in paths, the * wildcard behaves as follows:

\*\

Matches any subdirectory

\**\

Recursively matches any subdirectory, or no subdirectory at all.

The following examples demonstrate wildcard matching for directories:

c:\source\*\files\*.txt

Match: c:\source\foldera\files\afile.txt

Match: c:\source\folderb\files\afile.txt

No Match: c:\source\foldera\subfolder\files\afile.txt

No Match: c:\source\files\afile.txt

c:\source\**\files\*.txt

Match: c:\source\files\afile.txt

Match: c:\source\foldera\files\afile.txt

Match: c:\source\foldera\subfolder\files\afile.txt

Match: c:\source\folderb\files\afile.txt

No Match: c:\source\foldera\subfolder\files\subdir\afile.txt

No Match: c:\source\files\afile.txt

c:\source\**\*.txt

Match: c:\source\afile.txt

Match: c:\source\foldera\afile.txt

Match: c:\source\foldera\subfolder\afile.txt