Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 - STORAGE SERVICES AUDITING CLIENT LOGGER UTILITY REFERENCE 04-29-2010 Reference page 21

Path Element Options
The path element of the filter pattern is a filename-matching pattern or directory-name-matching
pattern that specifies directories or files to include or exclude from the audit log.
The path element immediately follows the negation element (if present).
The path element is delimited from event element by a [space or tab] character. Thus, if a path
element contains a space or tab character, you must do one of the following: Enclose the path
element in quotation marks (such as
within the path element by preceding it with a backslash (
The event element follows the path element delimiter (space character or tab character).
"Path Element Wildcard Characters" on page 21
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"Path Element Examples" on page 22
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Path Element Wildcard Characters
The syntax for the filename and directory name pattern allows for the following wildcard characters:
?
Using the question mark (?) wildcard matches any single character, except for a forward slash
character ( ).
/
*
Using the single asterisk (*) wildcard matches any sequence of zero or more characters, except
for a forward slash character (
**
Using the double asterisk (**) wildcard matches any sequence of zero or more characters,
including a forward slash character (
[chars]
Using the
[chars]
sequence of the form
forward slash ( ) cannot be specified within
/
simply includes the minus as one of the characters in the group.
\x
Using the backslash before a character matches the character specified, except for the forward
slash character ( ).
/
{a,b,...}
Using the list of strings matches any of the strings a, b, and so on.
NOTE: Generally, the forward slash character (
in the use of a double asterisk (
For path element examples, see
"VOL1:/xyz dir/"
).
/
).
/
wildcard matches any single character in
, then any character between a and b (inclusive) will match. The
a-b
) must be matched explicitly. The only exception is
/
).
**
"Path Element Examples" on page
), or escape each space or tab character
) character (such as
\
. If
chars
. A leading or trailing minus character (
chars
22.
).
VOL1:/xyz\ dir/
contains a
chars
)
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