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Posted: **03 Aug 2012 04:31**

batch file wildcards i have to open a file but there are two very similar ones and i only open one.

say i have two documents that are the same like
This_is_a_test_v10.02.03.00.txt
This_is_a_test_v10.02.03.00_hello.txt

i only want to open the top one and not the bottom one.

this is what i have so far

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For /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%I in (`dir /b /a-d "%filepath%\This_is_a_test*.txt"`) do start notepad "%filepath%\%%I"

Thank you

Posted: **03 Aug 2012 06:07**

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@echo off
pushd "%filepath%"
For /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d "This_is_a_test*.txt"') do (
start "" notepad "%%a"
goto :next
)
:next
popd

Posted: **03 Aug 2012 07:00**

Awesome thanks that is perfect

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