What use wild card in ms dos?

Answer 1

A Wild card in MS-DOS is a character that can be used to filter the data that you are searching. Wild cards that MS-DOS uses are * and ?

This can be understood by the following example:

If you want to search all the files starting with the letter - a

enter the following command in he command line

dir a*.*

Of if you want to search all the text files that will start with 'amin', you can use:

dir amin*.txt

Now, if you want all the files that begin with any letter and ends with 'amin.txt'

you can use:

dir ?amin.txt

which will show you:

aamin.txt

bamin.txt

camin.txt

This can be understood completely if you try it out yourself

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