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<p><center><h2>Wildcard Matching</h2></center></p> |
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Most command shells such as bash or cmd.exe support "file |
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Wildcard matching provides four features: |
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<li>Any character represents itself apart from those |
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mentioned below. Thus 'c' matches the character 'c'. |
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<li>The '?' character matches any single character.</li> |
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<li>The '*' matches zero or more of any characters.</li> |
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<li>Sets of characters can be represented in square brackets. |
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Within the character class, like outside, backslash |
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For example we could identify HTML files with |
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<code>*.html</code>. This will match zero or more characters |
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See also: <a href="browse.html">Browse</a>, <a href="filedialog.html">File Dialog</a>, |
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