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- It is possible to exercise some control over the matching that the interface
- does by use of wildcards. Note that this feature is not fully general.
- Five wildcard formats are valid.
-
- * This will either, depending on the context (see the help screens
- for each input line), search or list all entries of the
- specified type.
- paul* Matches entries with a name beginning with the string "paul"
- *paul* Matches entries with a name containing the string "paul"
- *paul Matches entries with a name finishing with the string "paul"
- paul*ker Matches entries with a name beginning with the string "paul"
- and finishing with the string "ker"
-
- Note that the interface automatically provides some wildcard matching if
- no wildcarding is specified but no exact match can be found. The interface
- will progressively try weaker and weaker matching in an attempt to satisfy
- a query.
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