:wild in pathnames?

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Date: 03/27/05 

Date: 26 Mar 2005 18:41:09 -0800

hi, i try to make sense of what :wild do in pathnames.. i'm trying to
learn pathnames and currently is reading chapter 15 of the book
Practical Common Lisp.. He describe wild as: "...that has one or more
components containing the special value :wild and returns a list of
pathnames representing files in the file system that match the wild
pathname."

at least i don't quite get what exactly is wild pathname.. is it a wild
card kind thing that matches random arbitrary amount of pathnames? what
use would that be?

if anyone has any elaboration on pathnames to aid my study would be
much appreciated too :D

thank you very much!

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