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Selecting Objects and Entering Commands
Typing Commands for Several Objects
You can also type commands so that several files or
folders are affected. You can include more than one
file name in a typed command, or you can use the *
(wildcard) character to specify a group of similarly
named files.
For example, if you have three files named filel,
file2, and file3, you could delete them from the
current folder by typing the command:
delete filel file2 file3
A quicker way to delete the three files would be to
type the command:
delete file*
This command is equivalent to saying, "delete all the
files in the current folder with names that start with
file." Using the * character in a file name when you
type a command means the command affects all files in
the current folder with names that start with the
letters before the *.
The * character must be used with caution, because it
is easy to specify more files than you intend. For
example, the delete file* command above could easily
delete more than the three files filel, file2, and
file3. If the current folder had files named file4,
filelO, and file_today, these files would also be
deleted.
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