Working with placeholders, also known as wildcards, to compare characters or to search for and find specific strings!In contrast to the restricted Internet search using search engines, placeholders are very important!
A wildcard is a symbol that replaces an unknown character or set of characters. Commonly used placeholders are the asterisk (*) and the question mark (?). Other wildcard characters may be defined depending on the software or the search engine you are using. If you are looking for files on Linux, MAC-OS, Windows or the Internet, you can use a wildcard to simplify your search. Wildcards can also simplify commands issued from the command line under LInux or Windows. Programs like DirPrintOK and MeinPlatz support wildcards! The best-known placeholders, for example when exchanging files *,?,*. *, ^ Search with placeholders Example 1: Find everything that starts with "image" image* or ^image* Finds "image1.jpg" "image2.jpg" "image.bmp", etc ... Search with wildcards Example 2: Find everything where the word (string) "Danger" occurs *Danger* Finds " danger_important.jpg" and "danger.txt" "bild_ danger.bmp", etc ... PS
The asterisk stands for any number of unknown characters. Use this option when you are looking for documents or files that you only have partial names for. The question mark only stands for an unknown character. Use this option when you have a list of files with very similar names, or when you are unsure about some characters. Search with placeholders Example 3: Find everything where the word begins with the letter (character) "b" and and the letter "d" occurs Also in the correct order! b*d Finds " bat_in_somer_danger.jpg" " basic text and.txt", etc ... Search with wildcards Example 4: Find everything where the word (character string) "ba" occurs and the letter "s "also occurs in the correct order! *ba*s Finds " baden_im_ sommer.jpg" " bares for rares sendung.txt", etc ... Search with wildcards Example 5: Find files that begin with the word "bathe" or "order" bathe*; order*; Search with wildcards Example 6: Find files that begin with the word "bathe" or "order" and with jpg or txt end up bathe*.jpg;order*.jpg; bathe*.txt;bares*.txt; Finds " bathe _im_sommer.jpg " " bares for rare broadcast order.txt ", etc .... Info:
You can use the asterisk (*) and question mark (?) Anywhere in a search, and you can use them together. For example, if you want to search for all files home that start with a character or two and end with any extension, enter baden ??. * As the search term. Your search could return baden33.file1 baden4.txt, but not badenbaden.doc. FAQ 69: Updated on: 24 July 2021 13:28 |
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