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OCR: COM PUTER FILES AND DATA STO RAG F Wildca rds What's Files have unique names , but sometimes you want to refer to more than one file. For example suppose you want to list all the files on your with an .exe extension. You can specify .exe (pronounced dot e-x-e The asterisk wildcard character used t0 represent group of characters exe means all the files with an eXE extension Suppose your contains the files: E xcel.exe Spell.exe, Excel.cfg. and Budget. .dat You could use Excel. to represent Excel. .exe and Excel.cfg (pronounced "star top starn means all files. When you use DOS the command DEL will delete all the files in directory Be careful if you use th is command! Most operating systems use wildcards sto make it easier to manipulate a collection of files. For example using wildcards. you c ...