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Created page with "==About== A file mask is a filename containing zero or more wildcard characters or other search filtering. The most commonly-recognized wildcards are {{fmt/code|*}..."

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==About==
A [[file mask]] is a [[filename]] containing zero or more [[wildcard]] characters or other search filtering. The most commonly-recognized wildcards are {{fmt/code|*}} and {{fmt/code|?}}, which originated with [[UNIX]] (I think) and were also used in both [[CP/M]] and [[DOS]].

==Related==
* [[grep/file masks]]: how file masks don't really work for recursion in [[grep]]
* [[bash/globbing]]: how a certain popular CLI shell isolates applications from their execution arguments

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Woozle: Created page with "==About== A file mask is a filename containing zero or more wildcard characters or other search filtering. The most commonly-recognized wildcards are {{fmt/code|*}..."