A wildcard character is a special character that represents one or more other characters.
The commonly used wildcard characters are :-
The commonly used wildcard characters are :-
Wildcard character
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Uses
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Asterisk (*)
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The asterisk represents zero or more characters in a string.
Example :-
If we are looking for a file that we know starts with "lmn" but you cannot remember the rest of the file name, type the following :-
lmn*
This locates all files of any file type that begin with "lmn" including lmn.txt, lmnhub.doc,lmneworld.doc, lmntechnohub.doc, etc...
To simplify the search to a specific type of file, type:
lmn*.doc
This will find all files that begin with "lmn" but have the file name extension .doc, such as lmnhub.doc,lmneworld.doc, lmntechnohub.doc.
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Question mark (?)
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Which represents any one character.
Example:-
if we type lmn?.doc,
lmn?.doc
It will locate the file lmn1.doc or lmn2.doc but not lmnhub.doc, lmneworld.doc, lmntechnohub.doc. Because (?) means only single character.
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