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What are wildcard characters in DOS?

A question mark is used to match any single character. So:

b?b

would match bib, bob, and bub, but not bulb.

An asterisk matches zero or more characters. So:

s*d

would match sad, said, summed, and so forth.

bra*

would match bra (remember zero or more), brad, branch, and so forth.

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