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Pattern Matching

Pattern matching allows you easily to specify more than one entity at a time when those entities have similar names. With pattern matching, you can specify all entities that begin with, contain, or end with particular characters. You can use the following characters for pattern matching:

*

Any number of characters

%

One character only

Example

• To specify all files whose filenames end in SALES, regardless of filetype, enter:

  *sales   *
  

• To specify any file with a five-character filename that ends in DEC and whose filetype contains the character string REP, enter:

  %%dec   *rep*