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| Wildcards are symbols that enable us to perform an MS-DOS operation on more than one file at a time. A file specification that contains wildcards can refer to more than one file because it gives MS-DOS a pattern to match. | |||||||||||||||||
| MS-DOS searches for any file whose filename or extension matches the pattern. There are two wildcard characters: | |||||||||||||||||
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| There can be LESS than the maximum number of characters/letters/numbers. | |||||||||||||||||
| For example suppose you had a directory containing the following files, | |||||||||||||||||
| A.DOC AA.DOC AAA.DOC B.DOC A.TXT B.TXT |
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| The following command and file patterns match some or all the above files:- | |||||||||||||||||
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