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The asterisk or is used a wildcard to represent any amount of characters. It can be used to represent all or part of something. When it comes to files, *.* represents files of any name and any extension. You can also use it where you have part of the name you want, like if you want to find names that begin with particular letters like this where it takes anything that starts with A and has any amount of letters after it:

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