LOL! We know how to copy the whole directory thanks Capt Obvious. It was because Dasil claimed he agreed with you that it's possible use wildcard to copy unknown files that our little discussion started. Looking back at the posts, I don't think you claimed to be able to do that at all and were referring to copydir command in fact.

You're probably old enough to have been sent to a Siberian labour camp from some transgression, the General's daughter or missus again i guess [maybe both], but up there the only wildcard you would have been unhappy about is the Joker in somebody else's hand in the occasional game of 500 with the other inmates i reckon.

Anyhow, it seems that it is not possible to copy individual files using wildcard or you would know about it.