What Wildcards Can Be Used for Search Queries?
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What Wildcards Can Be Used for Search Queries?

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Article ID: 291723

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Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense) Carbon Black Cloud Audit and Remediation Carbon Black Cloud Audit and Remediation (formerly Cb Live Ops) Carbon Black Cloud Container Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR (formerly Cb Threathunter) Carbon Black Cloud Managed Detection (formerly Cb Threatsight) Carbon Black Cloud Managed Detection and Response Carbon Black Cloud Managed Threat Hunting Carbon Black Cloud Prevention Carbon Black Cloud Workload

Issue/Introduction

What wildcards can be used for search queries? 

Environment

  • Carbon Black Cloud Console

Resolution

Wildcard Description Example
? 1 character wildcard "wordfile?" or "?:\"
* 1 to many characters in single directory

"*\file.exe" matches "c:\file.exe"

** recursive wildcard on many subdirectories

"c:\**\file.exe" matches "c:\<dir>\<subdir>\..\file.exe"

Additional Information

The noted Wildcards currently require being used as trailing 3 characters at least. 
You can use Logical Operators to combine searches and filter out unwanted search results. If you are trying to search for a file extension for example, you may need to use:
<file extension you are searching for> AND (NOT all.app.name:<application that is not related to what you're searching for> OR NOT all.app.name:<other application or applications you want filtered out>)