Wildcards in computer programming are symbols that can stand for any number of different points of data. Using wildcards in a query will return more results that standard parameters.
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Windows-7 search for contents does not work with wildcards
With Windows 7, I try to run a search for a word or pattern in (mostly MS Word) files. Typing contents:NeedleInHaystack this works perfectly. But as soon as I include wildcards (e.g. ...
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KeePass wildcard in url
I started using Keepass yesterday and it's really useful however I cannot find a way to add wildcard into the url...
I want one key being used on all url(s) that met the following rule:
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DD-WRT routers - How can I specify any/all IP address ranges?
I'm creating port forwarding rules on my DD-WRT router (shown below) and want to allow all (any) source networks access. My thought was to specify 0.0.0.0/32 but that is not working. How do I ...
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Is it possible to put a wildcard search into a parameter query in LibreOffice Base?
I am using Base in LibreOffice 4.0 (still using the HSQL that comes with Base but looking at moving to HSQL 2.2.8) and I would like to do a query that asks for parameter input like:
SELECT * FROM ...
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Launch a shortcut using batch file
Here's the problem.
I have a shortcut on roughly 260 computers located in the same folder as below;
"c:\documents and settings\all users\desktop\Remote agent 1234.lnk"
The only thing that changes ...
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Using wildcard to find (and delete) matching files on a Linux box
I want to delete a specific config file for Awstats for every user on the box. What is the best way to delete them, and possibly, in one line?
All the files are under /home and have this structure:
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Search for a file with wildcards in the path using Windows command line
How can I search for files in the Windows command line, using wildcards like this?
C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\*.txt
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How to use wildcards in a xargs-command?
I've got a directory with numbered files, e.g. 1_foo.txt 2_bar.asc 13_test.png, and want to move them into individual directories (e.g. 1, 2 and 13) using as simple a bash command as possible.
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Bash wildcards repeated match
Can bash list with a repeated string? Lets say I wanted to match the files
config_foo_foo.txt
config_bar_bar.txt
but NOT
config_foo_bar.txt
something like
ls -l config_*_*.txt
matches all ...
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icacls batch file multiple directories with wildcards help needed
I have written the following batch file that does a great job combing through all folders beginning with the number 3 and applying folder permissions to any 2010 subfolder. Example of the batch ...
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Excluding preceding characters from a “Find”
I'm attempting to automatically format portions of a significantly sized document. For one, I'm attempting to apply Heading 1 to all headings in the format of:
1.1 Heading 1
and Heading 2 to:
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Is there any way to get the windows cmd shell to expand wildcard paths?
Occasionally, the cmd shell's inability to expand wildcard paths can really be an inconvenience. I had to pass 100 files in a directory to a program, and couldn't type *.ext. Instead, I used mingw's ...
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How to add wildcard to DNS for wordpress multisite in Kloxo?
I want to add Wildcard to DNS in my VPS (for setup Wordpress3.3.2 multisite). I have Kloxo, and when i want to add it from Manage DNS ( in Domain Adm ), i face with this error.
Alert: ...
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How do I replace all WOrds with FAlse SEcond LEtter Capitalization in lots of Word documents?
I need to mass-correct large amounts of documents in German. I need to handle several hundred pages of text. I have written a macro to do mass find-and-replace operations on common spelling mistakes.
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DEL *1.* deletes all files in folder
I'm trying to delete all files that end with the number one, but for some reason it is deleting all of the files in the folder.
The command I'm using is
DEL *1.*
It works when I use a letter like
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Wildcard for Chrome search?
I want to search for a word on a page. I know the first letter is a P the last letter is a L and there are 4 letters in-between them.
How can I search for this word?
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Use of wildcards to replace
I have a text and I need to change every number like NN.NN to NN.NN00. Ex. 23.43 to 23.4300
How can I do that using word
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How to create a fourth level wildcard subdomain DNS record ?
I would like to create subdomain tag.example.com and then fourth level wildcard subdomain DNS record over that one.
I mean *.tag.example.com
Is this possible ? and if so how ?
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Why do wildcards behave differently for different drives?
I'm using a Windows XP SP3 machine. My Z: drive is a mapped drive to a UNIX box.
There is a file called wk1_dailybackup_20110605043344.sql in both z:\archive and c:\archive.
At my CMD prompt from ...
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How to tar files with no extensions?
I have some directories with a varying numbers of files and subdirectories. All files that have no extensions have to be tared. Their names may change, thus they can not be hardcoded. Subdirectories ...
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Find/Replace Paragraph End (^13) in Microsoft Word 2007 Merges Paragraphs
I need to replace a target at the beginning of lines with something else. Without wildcards, I can say to replace "^pTarget" with "^pReplacement". With wildcards enabled, I use replace "^13Target" ...
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Replacing wildcard characters like ? in Excel
Was is das?
I try to replace the ? symbol to the ! symbol in Excel (2010)... and this changes all the chars to !???
I try to make a conditionnal formatting for cells that contains ? but it applyes ...
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MS Word 2010 Find/Replace Wildcards
I have a long list of name with addresses and phone numbers in this format ....
Barn Jeffery 123 Sunny Ln. Pulaski ,315-555-5555
Sarah 456 Bull Blvd. Memphis ,256-555-5555
Tara C. 7894 Pringle St. ...
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Start a program based on a wildcard in a Batch Script
I'm creating a setup script for a program developed by someone else. Their installer won't install over an existing version, so I need to uninstall any previous installations.
The uninstaller is ...
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Is there a windows app with a preview function to recursively delete by wildcard?
I'd like to do a ... delete *.dll from a folder, but preview it to make sure there aren't actually any folder names I have forgotten are there that I would actually want to keep. Other possiblities: ...
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Ignore types of files when you tab from the command line
One of the nice features of vim is that you can ask it to ignore certain types of files when you hit tab by using the following command in vimrc:
set wildignore+=*.hi,*.pyc,*.o
Is there a similar ...
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How to work around shell limitation of 'Argument list too long'?
How can I work around the bash shell limitation of 'Argument list too long' when using filename wildcards that match a ton of files in /tmp/?
[my-centos4 tmp] rm -rf /tmp/myLocalFiles*
bash: /bin/rm: ...
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Can Outlook Search use Regular Expressions (or wild cards)?
I'd like to search my Outlook email with regular expressions. Is this possible? If not, is there any sort of non-regex wildcard functionality? Without any sort of plug-in is preferable, but if not, ...
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Exclude directories from Windows Search by wildcard
Search Indexing is interfering with our build process, and I would like to exclude all instances of our dev directories from the indexer (we have a trunk and branches setup).
I could exclude the whole ...
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zsh autocomplete wildcard across the network
One of my favorite features of zsh is autocomplete, especially when I'm completing a filename on a networked machine. But how to you include wildcards (like *) and have it autocomplete from the ...
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Windows 7 Search Filters--Files Only
Why in the world can I not . in Windows 7 search? All I want to do is return all the files in all the sub-directories in one location so I can sort by dimensions. Any one know how to return all files ...
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In Word 2007, how to find&replace using wildcards for find without replacing the substring defined by the wildcards?
I have a document where there are many instances of two pieces of information on a single line, like
assigned to John Doe, estimate 2 days
and I want them to appear on two different lines, like
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Windows Search (Windows Desktop Search) wildcards do not work
At our company we have a big source code repository, and sometimes we need to do searches through all the code. As we need that from time to time we want to do something simple. I've tried Windows ...
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How do I delete all files within subdirectories matching a given wildcard in Windows?
I would like to delete all files on a Windows server matching this wildcard:
E:\Cache\*\*\*_ROOT\a*_SYMBOL\weekly*
In linux, I could just put an rm -rf in front of it and it would work. If I try ...
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Microsoft Work Wildcard find all phrases that match
I have been trying this for several days and I am coming up empty. I am simply trying to match a phrase that contains "v." within it, surrounded by newlines and em or en dashes.
Plain english ...
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How to prevent command line wildcard processor from evaluating short file names
I'm developing a batch file within which I'm using the following pattern:
*.res
I want to select all files with the extension .res, but this pattern is matching files with an extension of .resources ...
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Trouble trying to use Windows Search to search for file with a question mark in the content
It seems that Windows Search is having trouble when I specify a question mark character as the content that I'm searching for within my files.
I've tried:
content:?
content:"?"
content:"\?"
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Group Policies with wildcards
We have a few group policies in place in our school setting that deploy printers to OUs named after classrooms.
For example, in room 400, we might have a policy that pushes out a printer for the ...
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does %* in batch file mean all command line arguments?
does %* in batch file mean all command line arguments?
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How to combine wildcards and spaces (quotes) in an Windows command?
I want to remove directories of the following format:
C:\Program Files\FogBugz\Plugins\cache\PluginName@example.com_NN
NN is a number, so I want to use a wildcard (this is part of a post-build step ...
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Set NTFS file permission for Wild Card [like *.doc]
How to set NTFS file permission for Wild Card [like *.doc]? Is it possible?
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Word mergefield wildcard not correctly matching
Below is my mergefield code:
{ IF { MERGEFIELD Subs_State } = "GA" "blah blah" "{ IF { MERGEFIELD CEOrgStates } = "GA" "blah blah" ""} "}
I'm pulling records from a MS Access db. My goal is to check ...
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Wildcards in Word
I know little of wildcard usage in word.
wildcards - case sensitive
TO FIND
enter mark ^13
tab ^t
any lowercase letter [a-z]
any ...
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Firefox: save username/password for all sub domains?
Not sure if this is possible -- I have a username and password combo which is valid for all sub-domains of a given domain, that is: domain1.example.com, domain2.example.com, domain3.example.com, etc. ...
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Wildcard search in Mail.app
This is something that has been mystifying me for a while. I can't seem to find a wildcard search feature in Mail.app. Is there such a feature?
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How do use wildcards in command prompt?
This page on Command Line Syntax says I can use something like *.txt to search for a file.
For example, folder Z contains a.txt, b.txt, c.doc, etc.
Now, after I've changed the working directory to ...
