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8 <p><center><h2>Wildcard Matching</h2></center></p> |
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11 Most command shells such as bash or cmd.exe support "file |
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26 Wildcard matching provides four features: |
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30 <li>Any character represents itself apart from those |
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31 mentioned below. Thus 'c' matches the character 'c'. |
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33 <li>The '?' character matches any single character.</li> |
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34 <li>The '*' matches zero or more of any characters.</li> |
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35 <li>Sets of characters can be represented in square brackets. |
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42 For example we could identify HTML files with |
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50 See also: <a href="browse.html">Browse</a>, <a href="filedialog.html">File Dialog</a>, |
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51 <a href="findfile.html">Find File</a> |
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