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A wildcard character is any character that can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string.

A wildcard character is any character that can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string.

Examples (in many DOS/Unix systems):

* - Any sequence of characters.
? - Any single character.

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wildcard * in CSS for classes

I have these divs that I'm styling with .tocolor, but I also need the unique identifier 1,2,3,4 etc. so I'm adding that it as another class tocolor-1.
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Why is using a wild card with a Java import statement bad?

It is much more convenient and cleaner to use a single statement like import java.awt.*; than to import a bunch of individual classes import java.awt.Panel; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.Canvas; ... What is wrong with using a wildcard…
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Select all columns except one in MySQL?

I'm trying to use a select statement to get all of the columns from a certain MySQL table except one. Is there a simple way to do this? EDIT: There are 53 columns in this table (NOT MY DESIGN)
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Get a filtered list of files in a directory

I am trying to get a list of files in a directory using Python, but I do not want a list of ALL the files. What I essentially want is the ability to do something like the following but using Python and not executing ls. ls 145592*.jpg If there is…
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Check if a file exists with wildcard in shell script

I'm trying to check if a file exists, but with a wildcard. Here is my example: if [ -f "xorg-x11-fonts*" ]; then printf "BLAH" fi I have also tried it without the double quotes.
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Unzip All Files In A Directory

I have a directory of ZIP files (created on a Windows machine). I can manually unzip them using unzip filename, but how can I unzip all the ZIP files in the current folder via the shell? Using Ubuntu Linux Server.
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How to find files that match a wildcard string in Java?

This should be really simple. If I have a String like this: ../Test?/sample*.txt then what is a generally-accepted way to get a list of files that match this pattern? (e.g. it should match ../Test1/sample22b.txt and ../Test4/sample-spiffy.txt but…
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Find all elements on a page whose element ID contains a certain text using jQuery

I'm trying to find all elements on a page whose element ID contains a certain text. I'll then need to filter the found elements based on whether they are hidden or not. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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When to use generic methods and when to use wild-card?

I am reading about generic methods from OracleDocGenericMethod. I am pretty confused about the comparison when it says when to use wild-card and when to use generic methods. Quoting from the document. interface Collection { public boolean…
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Why does "_" (underscore) match "-" (hyphen)?

I have to look for a PDF manual using this query: root@localhost:test> select * from a where name like '%taz_manual%.pdf%'; +--------------------+------------------+-------------+ | name | description | size |…
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How to use a wildcard in the classpath to add multiple jars?

I have been using so many 3rd party libraries(jar files) that my CLASSPATH is completely messed up as i have to include the path for every single jar file that i use. I've been wondering if there is a way to include all the jar files in a folder…
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What expands to all files in current directory recursively?

I know **/*.ext expands to all files in all subdirectories matching *.ext, but what is a similar expansion that includes all such files in the current directory as well?
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rsync not synchronizing .htaccess file

I am trying to rsync directory A of server1 with directory B of server2. Sitting in the directory A of server1, I ran the following commands. rsync -av * server2::sharename/B but the interesting thing is, it synchronizes all files and directories…
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Stop shell wildcard character expansion?

Is there any way for a compiled command-line program to tell bash or csh that it does not want any wildcard characters in its parameters expanded? For instance, one might want a shell command like: foo * to simply return the numeric ASCII value of…
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What do double-asterisk wildcards mean?

I've tried the following command but I am having trouble interpreting it: ls ** but I'm not sure exactly what it is outputting and why that is the result.
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