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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 |
| 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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