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   Herbert Kleebauer to Jean-Pierre Coulon   
   Re: How can I cause "?" to represent rea   
   11 Aug 17 15:56:24   
   
   From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 11.08.2017 10:54, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:   
   > I have a set of file name p1.tif, p2.tif... p10.tif...p225.tif. When I say   
   dir   
   > or copy p???.tif all 225 files are taken into account. In other words "?"   
   > means either 1 or 0 character. How can I select the files that really have 3   
   > characters between p and .tif?   
      
      
   dir /b |findstr "p...[.]tif"   
      
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