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From: rjlov@ecr.mu.oz.au (Richard James LOVEJOY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <7384@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 17 Apr 91 05:14:15 GMT
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	In article <1991Apr16.155231.18782@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, grmg6820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Geoffrey R. Mason) writes:
> I would like to know what wildcards I can use when opening a new CLI with
> the workbench Shell command...  For example, I know that I can use the "?"
> as a single character wildcard, but how about a string?  Also, are there any
> PD programs that would allow me to make is so that I could type something like
> 	DELETE *.TXT
> to remove all files with extension .txt?

	The CLI uses the # to mean "any number of the next character". So 
#? means "any number of" "any character". Thus, you can use "delete #?.txt"
to remove all files with extension .txt.