Question Wildcard search

[whwar9739]

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.

 

[Cringer]

No inbuilt mechanism, but you could do an OS Listing for the file and parse that. What OS are you on?

 

[whwar9739]

Windows would be the OS, but I can't guaruntee which version. But I will definately look into that.

 

[Cringer]

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.

 

[jongpau]

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.

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.