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Working with Patterns
Safeguard User’s Guide — 422089-020
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Pattern Generality
Not a legal pattern protection record because it has wildcards in the volume name.
$D0201.*
Not a legal pattern because there is only a subvolume component, and not a
diskfile component. However, when adding this pattern into Safecom, the current
subvolume will be taken from the environment. The pattern will be translated into a
legal pattern: $D0201.subvol.*.
$SYSTEM.SYS00.OSIMAGE
Not a legal pattern because it contains no wildcards.
SYS??.OSIMAGE
Not a legal pattern because it does not contain a volume component. However,
when adding this pattern into Safecom, the current volume will be taken from the
environment.
Pattern Generality
Given a pattern, the farther left a wildcard is in that pattern, the more general it is. Also,
the asterisk (*) is more general than the question mark (?).
HP uses that principal to decide which pattern to use when more than one pattern
describes a file; for example, $DATA1.A*.* is more general than $DATA1.A*.B*.
Consider these files:
1. $DATA1.APPLPROD.SERVER1
2. $DATA1.APPLTEST.SERVER1
3. $DATA1.APPLCNTL.STARTUP
4. $DATA1.APPLDEVL.BUILD
Files 1,2,3 and 4 all match pattern “$DA
TA1.A*.*”. However, file 4 is the only match for
pattern $DATA1.A*.B*.
Which pattern would be used for file 4?
1. $DATA1.A*.*
2. $DATA1.A*.B*
Since both patterns have the same first 10 characters “$DA
TA1.A*.”, only look at what
is left. “*” and “B*”. The wildcard in “B*” is further to the right, it is more specific and will
be the one chosen.
Consider these patterns:
1. $DATA1.APPL*.SERVER?
2. $DATA1.APPL????.SERVER?