Question Wildcard search

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whwar9739

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Ok I tried quickly searching and didn't find anything so figured I would post.
Here is my question, is there anyway to search for an OS file using wildcards? Essetially I have enough information to uniqely identify a file but not enough to have the full file name.

Thanks in advance for any comments.
 
No inbuilt mechanism, but you could do an OS Listing for the file and parse that. What OS are you on?
 
You can use OS-COMMAND, and put the output into a text file you can read, and then parse it. It's not pretty, and won't be particularly quick, but would do the job.
 
Cringer said:
You can use OS-COMMAND, and put the output into a text file you can read, and then parse it. It's not pretty, and won't be particularly quick, but would do the job.
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Or use INPUT FROM OS-DIR, read the files the usual way and filter them as required. It becomes a bit more fun when you want to do a (recursive) search through a directory tree but it is certainly not impossible. At least you circumvent having to deal with various types and flavors of operating systems.
 
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