It also generally applies to concept of wildcards/globs not just to file paths, but many parameters. So a cmdlet like Get-User with a -Name parameter to get a u

It also generally applies to concept of wildcards/globs not just to file paths, but many parameters. So a cmdlet like Get-User with a -Name parameter to get a user with a certain name can also be called with John* to get all users with first name John. In my experience the filtering options are pretty consistent