Acorn computer econet level 2/3 User Manual
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Working withgroups of filesWildcardsIt is sometimes useful to refer to a group of files or directories inone command. You can do this by using wildcards — symbols thatrefer to any character or set of characters in a filename. The twowildcard symbols are # and *:■ # stands for any character■ * stands for any string of characters.EXAMPLESAB# can refer to ABC and ABZ; it will also matchAB, but not ABCD* can refer to any file or directory in thecurrently selected directoryONE.W* refers to all the files and directories in the directoryONE that start with W, including a file or directorycalled WWhen you use a wildcard to refer to a group of files, thereference you give — AB#, for example — is called anambiguous reference.Protecting groups of files *ACCESSYou can use ambiguous references with *ACCESS to set accessstrings for more than one file.Type: *ACCESS |
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