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  2. File URI scheme - Wikipedia

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    The string "localhost" will attempt to access the file as UNC path \\localhost\c:\path\to\the file.txt, which will not work since the colon is not allowed in a share name. The dot "." The dot "." results in the string being passed as \\.\c:\path\to\the file.txt , which will work for local files, but not shares on the local system.

  3. glob (programming) - Wikipedia

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    Python has a glob module in the standard library which performs wildcard pattern matching on filenames, [28] and an fnmatch module with functions for matching strings or filtering lists based on these same wildcard patterns. [17] Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language, wrote and contributed a glob routine to BSD Unix in ...

  4. Path (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a string of characters used to uniquely identify a location in a directory structure.It is composed by following the directory tree hierarchy in which components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory.

  5. PATH (variable) - Wikipedia

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    On DOS, OS/2, and Windows operating systems, the %PATH% variable is specified as a list of one or more directory names separated by semicolon (;) characters. [5]The Windows system directory (typically C:\WINDOWS\system32) is typically the first directory in the path, followed by many (but not all) of the directories for installed software packages.

  6. Filename - Wikipedia

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    Used as the default path name component separator in DOS, OS/2 and Windows (even if the SwitChar is set to '-'; allowed in Unix filenames, see Note 1). The big reverse solidus ⧹ (U+29F9) is permitted in Windows filenames. ? question mark: Used as a wildcard in Unix, Windows and AmigaOS; marks a single character.

  7. String literal - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Python, raw strings are preceded by an r or R – compare 'C:\\Windows' with r'C:\Windows' (though, a Python raw string cannot end in an odd number of backslashes). Python 2 also distinguishes two types of strings: 8-bit ASCII ("bytes") strings (the default), explicitly indicated with a b or B prefix, and Unicode strings ...

  8. xargs - Wikipedia

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    xargs (short for "extended arguments") [1] is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input.It converts input from standard input into arguments to a command.

  9. gettext - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext

    gettext() then uses the supplied strings as keys for looking up translations, and will return the original string when no translation is available. This is in contrast to POSIX catgets() , [ 14 ] AmigaOS GetString() , [ 15 ] or Microsoft Windows LoadString() where a programmatic ID (often an integer) is used.