The wildcard characters * and % match zero or more characters anywhere within an absolute or relative path, which saves typing of the full directory or file name. The two wildcard characters behave identically. There are various ASMCMD commands that accept wildcards, such as cd, du, find, ls, lsattr, lsdg, lsdsk, lsgrp, lsusr, and rm.
If a wildcard pattern matches only one directory when using wildcard characters with cd, then cd changes the directory to that destination. If the wildcard pattern matches multiple directories, then ASMCMD does not change the directory but instead returns an error.
If you are running ASMCMD commands in noninteractive mode, then with most operating systems you must enclose the wildcard characters in quotes. For more information, refer to "Running ASMCMD in Noninteractive Mode".
Example 10-1 illustrates the use of wildcards.
Example 10-1 Using wildcards with ASMCMD commands
ASMCMD [+] > cd +data/orcl/*FILE ASMCMD-08005: +data/orcl/*FILE: ambiguous ASMCMD [+] > cd +data/orcl/C* ASMCMD [+data/orcl/CONTROLFILE] > ASMCMD [+] > ls +fra/orcl/A% 2009_07_13/ 2009_07_14/ ASMCMD [+] > ls +fra/orcl/ARCHIVELOG/2009% +fra/orcl/ARCHIVELOG/2009_07_13/: thread_1_seq_3.260.692103543 thread_1_seq_4.261.692108897 thread_1_seq_5.262.692125993 thread_1_seq_6.263.692140729 thread_1_seq_7.264.692143333 +fra/orcl/ARCHIVELOG/2009_07_14/: thread_1_seq_8.271.692158265 thread_1_seq_9.272.692174597 ASMCMD [+] > ls data/orcl/* +data/orcl/CONTROLFILE/: Current.260.692103157 +data/orcl/DATAFILE/: EXAMPLE.265.692103187 SYSAUX.257.692103045 SYSTEM.256.692103045 UNDOTBS1.258.692103045 USERS.259.692103045 +data/orcl/ONLINELOG/: group_1.261.692103161 group_2.262.692103165 group_3.263.692103169 +data/orcl/PARAMETERFILE/: spfile.266.692103315 +data/orcl/TEMPFILE/: TEMP.264.692103181 spfileorcl.ora