Many of the A-Shell LIT commands support wildcard arguments. Those that do are marked with an asterisk in the "Class" column of System Commands List. Commands which support wildcards will also accept a comma-delimited list of filespecs, each of which may contain wildcards. Supported wildcards are:
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Matches any full or partial token in the specified position. For example, *.RUN matches any filename with a RUN extension. Or AB*.DAT[1,*] would match any filename beginning with AB that has a DAT extension and is in the Project 1. When a portion of a filespec is omitted, it may act like the * wildcard. For example, DIR ABC is equivalent to DIR ABC.* (rather than DIR ABC*.*). |
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Matches one character. If multiple ?? are used together, then the combination will match between 1 and the specified number of question mark characters. For example, A?BC.?? Would match any file any file starting with A, followed by any character, followed by BC, and with any one or two character extension. May also be used with the [P,PN], e.g. *.BAS[150,27?] |
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ALL: |
Special wildcard that matches all devices. For example, ALL:*.BAS[7,6] would match all files with extension BAS in [7,6] on any device. |
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Matches any PPN. For example, ALL:[]. You may also omit one of the two parts of the PPN, such as [,0] (equivalent to [*,0]). |