This commit restricts how wildcards can be used in search
locations for property files. If a search location contains
a pattern, there must be only one '*' and the location should
end with a '*/'. For search locations that specify the file
name, the pattern should end with '*/<filename>'.
The list of files read from wildcard locations are now sorted
alphabetically according to the absolute path of the file.
Closes gh-21217
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