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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="files-select" xml:lang="id">
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<link type="guide" xref="files#faq"/>
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<name>Shaun McCance</name>
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<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="outdated"/>
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<desc>Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>S</key></keyseq> to select multiple
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files which have similar names.</desc>
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<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
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<mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
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<mal:name>Andika Triwidada</mal:name>
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<mal:email>andika@gmail.com</mal:email>
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<mal:years>2011, 2012</mal:years>
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<title>Select files by pattern</title>
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<p>You can select files in a folder using a pattern on the file name.
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Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>S</key></keyseq> to bring up the
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<gui>Select Items Matching</gui> window. Type in a pattern using
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common parts of the file names plus wild card characters. There are
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two wild card characters available:</p>
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<list style="compact">
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<item><p><file>*</file> matches any number of any characters, even
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no characters at all.</p></item>
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<item><p><file>?</file> matches exactly one of any character.</p></item>
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<item><p>If you have an OpenDocument Text file, a PDF file, and an
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image that all have the same base name <file>Invoice</file>, select
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all three with the pattern</p>
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<example><p><file>Invoice.*</file></p></example></item>
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<item><p>If you have some photos that are named like <file>Vacation-001.jpg</file>,
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<file>Vacation-002.jpg</file>, <file>Vacation-003.jpg</file>; select them all
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<example><p><file>Vacation-???.jpg</file></p></example></item>
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<item><p>If you have photos as before, but you've edited some of them and
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added <file>-edited</file> to the end of the file name of the photos you've
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edited, select the edited photos with</p>
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<example><p><file>Vacation-???-edited.jpg</file></p></example></item>
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