PowerShell: String Wildcards

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Wildcard can be used to represent string patterns. For example, dir "*jpg" means list any filename ending in jpg.

?
Match any character.
*
Match any character, zero or more times.
[a-z]
Match a range of characters a to z.
[chars]
Match any char in chars

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