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Name: dbohm
Date: October 15, 2003 at 13:17:17 Pacific
OS: NT4/2000
CPU/Ram: VARIOUS
Comment:

is there a way to use wildcards with the DIR command??



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Name: h4x3r
Date: October 15, 2003 at 15:29:12 Pacific
Reply:

depends what you mean?

if you want to search for all the executables in a directory you can slap this command in: DIR *.exe or all the pictures ina directory DIR *.jpg
* is usually the wildcard key


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Response Number 2
Name: JackG
Date: October 15, 2003 at 16:17:02 Pacific
Reply:

* global

? single character position


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