... Filemasks

What are filemasks?
Filemasks are filenames which contain the characters '*
' and/or '?'.

What are they good for?

Filemasks are for selecting files which names correspond to the filemask. The character '*
' stands for any number of any characters, while '?' stands for exactly ONE of any characters.

Any examples?

The filemask '*.txt
' selects every text file which has the file extension '.txt' - e.g. 'My letter.txt', 'Shopping list.txt', etc.
If you are demanding, you should use '?oney
' as filemask - this will let you retrieve 'honey' and 'money', because if you use '*oney' you will find 'boloney' and such things. But beware of '?oney*' - you would find 'Boney M.' and 'boneyard'! ;-)