List files using wildcards

[chris]

Paul MacKenzie? <nospam@…> reports:

For individual files within a full directory, I find it difficult (and some times impossible) to find the object id in a folder where there are 1000s of files to get the right one / older version. Any suggestions on how I can do a list like:

• list file*

And it shows all the files starting with the word "file".

[petej]

For what it's worth, in the interim, I use things like the following.

If cygwin is not installed, then in a Windows cmd window:

  bbackupquery "list -odstr" quit | findstr /r "\.doc$"
  bbackupquery "list -odstr" quit | find ".doc"

Or if I'm lucky and cygwin is installed, in a cygwin window:

  bbackupquery "list -odstr" quit | grep "\.doc$"

I always have to flail around to escape or quote spaces in path names, but I eventually get it to work, and then promptly forget to document what I did.

[chris]

Yes, but not for 0.11, sorry.