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The wildcardsareliteral option specifies whether question marks (?) and asterisks (*) are interpreted literally, when they are included in a file list specification on a filelist option.

Ordinarily, the client does not accept wildcard characters (?) and (*) in a file list specification that is included on a filelist option. Some file systems, such as the IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) file system, allow single and double quotation marks in file and directory names. To prevent errors that would otherwise occur, when file specifications are included on a filelist option and they contain wildcard characters, set wildcardsareliteral yes. When wildcardsareliteral is set to yes, question marks (?) and asterisks (*) that are included in a file list specification on the filelist option are interpreted literally, and not as wildcard characters.

This option applies to any command that accepts a filelist option as command parameter.

Supported Clients

This option is valid for all supported UNIX and Linux® platforms. The option is applied to any command that takes a file list specification as a parameter.

Options File

Place this option in the client user options file (dsm.opt).

Syntax

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Parameters

no
Specifies that question marks and asterisks are interpreted as wildcards when used in a file list specification that is included on a filelist option. The default section is No. If a file list specification on a filelist option includes a question mark or asterisk, an error occurs and the file specification cannot be processed.
yes
Specifies that asterisks and question marks in a file list specification that is included on a filelist option are interpreted literally, and not as wildcard characters. Specify this value if you are backing up files from a file system that allows wildcard characters in file or directory names.

Examples

Options file:
WILDCARDSARELITERAL YES
Command line:
Assuming that the file system allows wildcard characters in paths, the following are examples of files in a file list specification that can be successfully processed if WILDCARDSARELITERAL is set to YES.
Assume that the command issued is dsmc sel -filelist=/home/user1/important_files, where important_files.txt contains the list of files to process.
important_files.txt contains the following list of files:
/home/user1/myfiles/file?9000
/home/user1/myfiles/?file
/home/user1/myfiles/**README**version2
/home/user1/myfiles/ABC?file*
If both WILDCARDSARELITERAL and QUOTESARELITERAL are set to YES, the following backups can be successfully processed:
/home/user1/myfiles/"file?
/home/user1/myfiles/?file'
/home/user1/myfiles/**"README Tomorrow"**
/home/user1/myfiles/file*