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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.2

# Windows wildcards

In some cases, `p4` commands on Windows can result in a delayed response if they use unquoted file patterns with a combination of depot syntax and wildcards, such as:

    $ p4 files //depot/*

You can prevent the delay by putting double quotes around the file pattern, like this:

    $ p4 files "//depot/*"

The cause of the problem is the `p4` command’s use of a Windows function to expand wildcards. When quotes are not used, the function interprets `//depot` as a networked computer path and spends time in a futile search for a machine named `depot`.

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