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From: danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Wildcard expansion for any command, w/DLC source
Summary: It's not necessary
Message-ID: <1651@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 13:09:52 GMT
References: <3500@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
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Although this program makes it easier, it's not really necessary:

In article <3500@bsu-cs.UUCP>, bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
> 
> commands would be done as:
> 	WILDCARD FIND -"string" *.c
> and:
> 	WILDCARD FIND -"string" file1 file2 file3

You could write:

for %i in ( *.c ) do find "string" %i

or

for %i in ( file1 file2 file3 ) do find "string" %i

If it's in a batch file you'd need to change the "%i" to "%%i", like
this:

for %%i in (*.c) do find "string" %%i


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