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From: dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.111733.5983@cs.umu.se>
Date: 17 Apr 91 11:17:33 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?
>--
To delete all file with extension .txt just type:
1> delete #?.txt
#? stands for any number of any char, just like * in MS-DOS, though in 
amigados it can match a period as well.
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