Can I use a wildcard to denote subdirectories as opposed to just files in the Windows Command Prompt

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Published on 2010-04-26T20:15:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 20:24 UTC
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I know I can use a wildcard to list the files in a single directory:

dir *.java

However, does anyone know if it is possible to denote a subdirectory with a wildcard as well?

I would like to do something like

dir classes/*/*.java

Where, it will list all the java files in every subdirectory beneath the classes directory.

So, if there is:

classes/cs1100/
classes/cs1200/
classes/cs1500/

It will list all the java files within these.

Note, I'm not using this specifically for the "Dir" command, but instead another command line tool that accepts a list of files. But, if it works for Dir, it shoudl work in my other program as well.

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