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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"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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