Wildcard Support for Mac File Exclusions

The Mac Scan Exclusion List for files supports the * character. Use the * character to represent a folder name.

Table 1. Correct Usage of Wildcards
Example	Matched Data
/Users/*	All files and folders in /Users/
/Users/username/temp/*	All files and folders in /Users/username/temp/
/Users/*/temp	All files and folders in /Users/*/temp

Table 2. Incorrect Usage of Wildcards
Example	Reason
/Users/*user/temp	Wildcards cannot support partial matching of folder names.
/Users/user*/temp
/Users/us*r/temp
/Users/username/temp/*.jpg	Wildcards cannot represent any file that has an extension.
/Users/username/temp/.	Wildcards cannot represent any file that has an extension.