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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Because you probably don’t have a PC with these files and directories,

follow the examples but use what’s on your drive. In other words, create your

own folders and copy files to them from various folders currently on your

system.

Using Wildcards to Locate Files

Visualize having 273 files in one directory. A few of these files have the

extension .docx, but most do not. You are looking only for files with the

.docx extension. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to type the dir command in

such a way that only the .docx files come up? You can do this by using

wildcards.

A wildcard is one of two special characters—asterisk (*) and question

mark (?)—that you can use in place of all or part of a filename, often so that a

command-line command will act on more than one file at a time. Wildcards

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