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Moving Large Number of Files With Wildcard (*) File Names Fails

Article ID: 138573

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006


APPLIES TO


This article was previously published under Q138573

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to move a large number of files from one directory to a specified directory and you use wildcards (*) in the file name, the files are not moved to the specified directory. For example:

move c:\test\135*.dgn d:\test\135
move c:\test\136*.dgn d:\test\136


If this example, the 135*.dgn and 136*.dgn files are moved to the d:\test\135 directory.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT versions 3.5 and 3.51. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: KB138573