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Most command shells such as bash or cmd.exe support "file
globbing", the ability to identify a group of files by using
wildcards.
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Wildcard matching provides four features:
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<li>Any character represents itself apart from those
mentioned below. Thus 'c' matches the character 'c'.
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<li>The '?' character matches any single character.</li>
<li>The '*' matches zero or more of any characters.</li>
<li>Sets of characters can be represented in square brackets.
Within the character class, like outside, backslash
has no special meaning.
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For example we could identify HTML files with
<code>*.html</code>. This will match zero or more characters
followed by a dot followed by 'h', 't', 'm' and 'l'.
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See also: <a href="browse.html">Browse</a>, <a href="filedialog.html">File Dialog</a>,
<a href="findfile.html">Find File</a>
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