Smart Exclusions - Syntax

[CP-Shark]

Hello,

I found the following SK for Smart Exclusions - Syntax and Supported Capabilities for Exclusion Types (Smart Exclusions - Syntax and Supported Capabilities for Exclusion Types (checkpoint.com))

Itßs kind of "not clear" how to handle some kinds of syntax.

Long short: 

Is this a valid syntax for a Smart Exclusion for File path?

**\folder\app\version**\common\bin\**

In my opinion two * means that this can contain zero or more characters. For example my example should cover:

• \\share\test\\folder\app\version**\common\bin\**
• \\share\test\\folder\app\version123\common\bin\process.exe
• \\share\test\\folder\app\version457\common\bin\doc.doc
• etc.

Hope my question is clear 😃

Best regards,
Oliver

[JonnyRabinowitz]

Do not claim to be the expert here on exclusions syntax and so ask two people who know much better

Answer from both I got is says that it is valid. Also some additional comments:

However in some cases you can use single “*” which is equivalent to any character expect for slashes “\/”, for example if you want to wildcard characters on the one level of folder hierarchy, e.g.

**\folder*\test

Covers:

\\share\folder123\test

C:\folderfolder\test

But not covers:

\\share\folder\inner\test

[lluner]

@JonnyRabinowitz 

Therefore putting
\folder\**

Covers:

\folder\test\folder\

\folder\test\folder\test

correct ?

[JonnyRabinowitz]

Got confirmation that this is correct!!