Top "Wildcard" questions

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

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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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*" ]; …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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Rename multiple files in cmd

If I have multiple files in a directory and want to append something to their filenames, but not to the …

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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 …

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Google Spreadsheet, Count IF contains a string

I have a column like this: What devices will you be using? iPad Kindle & iPad No Tablet iPad iPad &…

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