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<h1 class="topictitle1">Using search parameters with special characters</h1>
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<div class="p">You can use special characters such as ?, *, and \, when searching
for files and strings, based on the following rules.
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<td valign="top"><b>Option</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
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<td valign="top">*</td>
<td valign="top">Searches all items. </td>
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<td valign="top">abc*</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for items that begin with the characters abc,
for example, abcd or abctest.</td>
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<td valign="top">*abc</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for items ending with the characters abc, for example, dabc or testabc.</td>
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<td valign="top">*b*</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for items that have the character b anywhere in the name.</td>
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<td valign="top">a*c</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for items that begin with the character a and end with the character c.</td>
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<td valign="top">"a*"</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for items within quotation marks that start
with the character a, for example, "a," "ab," or "ad." Note that when you
use quotation marks, the specification becomes case sensitive.</td>
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<td valign="top">abc?</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for four-character items that begin with the
characters abc and have a single fourth character, for example, abcd.</td>
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<td valign="top">?abc</td><td valign="top">Searches for four-character items that begin with a
single character and end in abc, for example, dabc.</td>
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<td valign="top">?b?</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for three-character items that have a b in the middle, for example, abc.</td>
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<td valign="top">a?c</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for three-character items that have the character a and c with a single character in between.</td>
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<td valign="top">ab?</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for three-character items that start with ab and end in a third single character, for example, abc.</td>
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<td valign="top">a\* or a\?</td>
<td valign="top">Searches for characters where the * and ? are interpreted
literally, for example, a* or a?. The slash represents an escape character.
To use a slash literally, enter \\.</td>
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