Command Line Wildcard Expansion - Texas Instruments TI-89 Software Manual

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1.2.

Command Line Wildcard Expansion

A number of Sierra C™ utilities expand wildcards in command line filenames.
Wildcard characters are defined as follows:
*
?
[ char_set ]
The following are examples of wildcard expansions:
*.*
*
*.?*
*.c *.s
*.[cs]
c:\doc\version[0-9a-f].doc
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Match zero or more characters, where characters matched may be any
character except the period (
string matches files with and without extensions.
Match any character except the period ( . ) .
Match any character in the character set char_set . Characters can be
listed individually or as members of a range. A range is denoted by a
hyphen ( ) separated pair of characters; it includes the two characters
-
and all characters lexically between them.
Match all filenames in the current directory.
Match all filenames without extensions in the current directory.
Match all filenames with extensions in the current directory.
Match all filenames with extensions of .c or .s in the current directory.
Same as *.c *.s
Match all filenames in the subdirectory c:\doc with a base name of
version followed by a hexadecimal digit and a .doc extension.
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. ) . Dot-star ( .* ) at the end of a wildcard
Beta Version February 2, 2001