Dataset Wildcards

The special characters supported are:

?

Matches any single character.

*

Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

**

Matches the current directory and recursively all subdirectories

[chars]

Matches any single character in chars. If chars contains a sequence of the form a-b then any character between a and b (inclusive) will match.

{ab, cd,e,...}

Matches any of the strings ab, cd, e, etc.

Examples:  

C:\data\*.dgn

expands to all files in the c:\data directory that end with a .dgn extension

C:\data\**\*.dgn

expands to all files in the c:\data directory and any subdirectory below it that ends with a .dgn extension

C:\**\*.dgn

expands to all files on the entire C: drive that end with a .dgn extension

C:\{data,archive}\*.dgn

expands to all files in the c:\data and c:\archive directories that end with a .dgn extension

C:\{data,archive}\92*.dgn

expands to all files in the c:\data and c:\archive directories that start with 92 and end with a .dgn extension

C:\data\92?034.dgn  

expands to all files in the c:\data directory that start with 92, have any letter or number next, and end with 034.dgn

C:\data\92[a-z]034.dgn

expands to all files in the c:\data directory that start with 92, have any lowercase letter next, and end with 034.dgn