58 lines
1.6 KiB
HTML
58 lines
1.6 KiB
HTML
<html>
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<title>Wildcard Matching</title>
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</head>
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<body style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica">
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<p><center><h2>Wildcard Matching</h2></center></p>
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<p>
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Most command shells such as bash or cmd.exe support "file
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globbing", the ability to identify a group of files by using
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wildcards.
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<br />
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<br />
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<table align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">
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<tr valign="top" bgcolor="#f0f0f0">
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<td><center><img src="images/wildcard.png" /></center></td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<br />
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<br />
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<p>
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Wildcard matching provides four features:
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</p>
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<ul>
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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>
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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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has no special meaning.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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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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followed by a dot followed by 'h', 't', 'm' and 'l'.
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</p>
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<br />
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<br />
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<p>
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See also: <a href="browse.html">Browse</a>, <a href="filedialog.html">File Dialog</a>,
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<a href="findfile.html">Find File</a>
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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