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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="files-select">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="files#faq"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-29" status="final"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-04-06" status="outdated"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<desc>Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>S</key></keyseq> to select multiple files which have similar names.</desc>
<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
</info>
<title>Select files by pattern</title>
<p>You can select files in a folder using a pattern on the file name.
Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>S</key></keyseq> to bring up the
<gui>Select Items Matching</gui> window. Type in a pattern using
common parts of the file names plus wild card characters. There are
two wild card characters available:</p>
<list style="compact">
<item><p><file>*</file> matches any number of any characters, even
no characters at all.</p></item>
<item><p><file>?</file> matches exactly one of any character.</p></item>
</list>
<p>For example:</p>
<list>
<item><p>If you have an OpenDocument Text file, a PDF file, and an
image that all have the same base name <file>Invoice</file>, select
all three with the pattern</p>
<example><p><file>Invoice.*</file></p></example></item>
<item><p>If you have some photos that are named like <file>Vacation-001.jpg</file>,
<file>Vacation-002.jpg</file>, <file>Vacation-003.jpg</file>; select them all
with the pattern</p>
<example><p><file>Vacation-???.jpg</file></p></example></item>
<item><p>If you have photos as before, but you've edited some of them and
added <file>-edited</file> to the end of the file name of the photos you've
edited, select the edited photos with</p>
<example><p><file>Vacation-???-edited.jpg</file></p></example></item>
</list>
</page>
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