Specifying Files and Directories

File specifiers are expressions that allow you to pass a long list of files or a directory to Fortify Static Code Analyzer using wildcard characters. Fortify Static Code Analyzer recognizes two types of wildcard characters: a single asterisk character (*) matches part of a file name, and double asterisk characters (**) recursively matches directories. You can specify one or more files, one or more file specifiers, or a combination of files and file specifiers.

<files> | <file_dir_specifiers>

Note: File specifiers do not apply to C, C++, or Objective-C++.

The following table describes examples of file and directory specifiers.

File / Directory Specifier Description

<dir>

<dir>/**/*

Matches all files in the named directory and any subdirectories or the named directory when used for a directory parameter.

<dir>/**/Example.java

Matches any file named Example.java found in the named directory or any subdirectories.

<dir>/*.java

<dir>/*.jar

Matches any file with the specified extension found in the named directory.

<dir>/**/*.kt

<dir>/**/*.jar

Matches any file with the specified extension found in the named directory or any subdirectories.

<dir>/**/beta/**

Matches all directories and files found in the named directory that have beta in the path, including beta as a file name.

<dir>/**/classes/

Matches all directories and files with the name classes found in the named directory and any subdirectories.

**/test/**

Matches all files in the current directory tree that have a test element in the path, including test as a file name.

**/webgoat/*

Matches all files in any webgoat directory in the current directory tree.

Matches:

  • /src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat
  • /test/java/org/owasp/webgoat

Does not match (assignments directory does not match)

  • /test/java/org/owasp/webgoat/assignments

Note: Windows and many Linux shells automatically expand parameters that contain the asterisk character (*), so you must enclose file-specifier expressions in quotes. Also, on Windows, you can use the backslash character (\) as the directory separator instead of the forward slash (/).