Listing files with a wildcard

Shao Sean shaosean at unitz.ca
Wed Feb 13 00:34:01 EST 2002


i believe the "files" command will only grab the entire list, but it's
fast.. then use the "filter" command (i think i got the names right).. it's
what's used to do the reference library filter..

----- Original Message -----
> Does anyone know how to isolate a file list by wildcards? I have a
> directory containing 15000+ files, but I only want to see a listing of the
> ones whos filename begins with "HAPPY" for example.  I don't want to waste
> time getting the entire files list then filtering it down.  Any ideas are
> appreciated.





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