Thursday, May 7, 2015

What are the wildcards used for searching any file?



Q11. What are the wildcards used for searching any file?

Answer
A wildcard is a symbol that takes the place of an unknown character or set of characters. Commonly used wild-cards are the Asterisk* ) and the Question Mark? ).
The Asterisk ( * )
The asterisk represents any number of unknown characters. We use it when searching for documents or files for which we have only partial names.
For example, if we enter cheese* as search term, the search might return these items: cheese, cheesecake, cheesedip.txt

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