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From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.013825.9354@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 17 Apr 91 01:38:25 GMT
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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?

Try DELETE #?.TXT

As '?' is the single char wildcard, '#' is the "take the next char and
match if it occurs >=0 times, '#?' is the generic wildcard match.

  remember.
	
	#?    ==   *

Anyway, if you are running WB1.3, get ARP (its PD). It is heaps better than
C= (and faster, and smaller etc,etc :-). It's wildcard's are also like
Unix, (ie, uses the '*')
>--
>Geoffrey R. Mason		|	grmg6820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>Department of Psychology	|	gmason@s.psych.uiuc.edu
>University of Illinois		|	x9999bng@maple.circa.ufl.edu
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