The Perforce system allows the use of three wildcards:
Wildcard | Meaning |
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Matches all characters except slashes within one directory. |
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Matches all files under the current working directory and all subdirectories. (matches anything, including slashes, and does so across subdirectories) |
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Positional specifiers for substring rearrangement in filenames, when used in views. |
For example:
Expression | Matches |
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Files in the current directory starting with |
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All files called |
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All files under the current directory and its subdirectories |
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All files under the current directory and its subdirectories,
that end in |
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All files under |
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All files in the workspace or depot that is named
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All files in the depot |
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All files in all depots |