Certain A-Shell system commands accept wildcards, including: DIR, COPY, MOVE and ERASE. The wildcard characters are:
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Wildcard |
Description |
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* |
matches anything within the corresponding part of the filespec |
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? |
matches zero or one characters |
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ALL: |
wildcard device, i.e. all devices |
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[] |
wildcard PPN, i.e. all PPNs |
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[*,?] |
all PPNs consisting of any project number and single digit programmer numbers, e.g. [100,2], [333,5]) |
Examples
|
Entered |
Result |
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DIR DSK0:*.RUN[] |
look for all programs in DSK0: with a RUN extension, in any PPN |
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.DIR ALL:*.1?[100,*] |
look in all devices, for all programs with an extension of 1, or 1 plus any character, in the PPNs made up of 100 with any programmer number |