On 4/29/2013 01:18, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> they would most likely use *.* because that's all they are used to using...
they would remain oblivious to the files they miss with that mask
Which files would be missed with this mask? IMO all files fit this mask (at
least for Windows).
quick testing form the command line of w2k shows that you are correct... what
some GUI tool does is a different matter, though, and i have seen some that
simply do not find all the files with certain masks... i agree that there should
be consistency and i get the same results in my command line tests of
dir
dir *
dir *.*
where each return all the same files in the same order...
i also tried
dir .*
which gave me all the files starting with a '.' whether they had more dots or
not...
eg:
C:\Documents and Settings\username>dir .*
Volume in drive C is Local Disk
Volume Serial Number is 9CAB-2377
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\username
08/09/2012 22:18 <DIR> .
08/09/2012 22:18 <DIR> ..
01/19/2012 00:10 7,569 .bash_history
01/17/2012 19:01 103 .gitconfig
03/31/2009 18:28 218 .recently-used.xbel
01/17/2012 11:28 <DIR> .ssh
3 File(s) 7,890 bytes
3 Dir(s) 6,939,553,792 bytes free
note that the 3rd file has another dot in its name...
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