Surprising DIR results when using wildcard

[dbenham]

I executed DIR TEST*2.BAT and found the following file
testAnyRtnN.bat

At first I couldn't figure out how a search pattern containing a 2 could return a file name that clearly does not contain a 2 . . .
. . . or does it?

The file name exceeds the 8.3 standard - here is the short name:
TESTAN~2.BAT

Mystery solved.

Moral of the story - be careful when doing wildcard file searches. You may not get what you want


Dave Benham

[renzlo]

thanks dave for the information.