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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Dired and wildcards
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:38:55 +0300
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> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:53:11 -0400
> 
> > And now to my original question: is there a way to tell Dired to
> > interpret "foo[bar]" as a wildcard, even though a file by that literal
> > name exists?  You seem to say there is no way, but I'm not sure I
> > understand you correctly.
> 
> I'd try "foo[arb]" or "foo[barr]" or "[f]oo[bar]" ... you get the idea.

Or maybe using -d in the ls switches?