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   Herbert Kleebauer to Jean-Pierre Coulon   
   Re: How can I cause "?" to represent rea   
   12 Aug 17 11:29:41   
   
   From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 12.08.2017 10:19, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:   
   > On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   >   
   >> dir /b |findstr "p...[.]tif"   
   >   
   > Sorry, it works with Windows XP. But instead of dir, can it work with COPY   
   > or can the result be the argument of another command? e.g. how can I limit   
   > 7za a mychunk.zip p*.tif to tif files with exactly 3 characters in the   
   > "*"?   
      
   I'm not sure what exactly you want to do. The following code   
   moves all tif files with 3 characters between "p" and ".tif"   
   to the directory "temp".   
      
   @echo off   
   mkdir temp   
   for /f %%i in ('dir /b *.tif ^|findstr "p...[.]tif"') do move %%i temp   
      
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