[clug] Ever received a .dat file from an <other OS> user?

Carlo Hamalainen carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 04:25:18 MST 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Adam Baxter <voltagex at voltagex.org> wrote:
> What do the \ ?_? wildcards do?

The pattern blah\ ?_?
will match files like "blah 0_1", "blah 2_a", etc.

Backslash followed by a space is a space (saves quoting the whole
name) and the question mark matches a single character. (and the
underscore is just an underscore)


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