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Wildcard Characters

Some commands permit the following wildcard characters to be used in file names:-

*
Zero or more characters.

?
Exactly one character.

[...]
The square brackets delimit lists or ranges of characters, for example:-
[abct-z]
matches the letters a, b, c, or any letter in the range t to z.



P.D. Gronbech (IT Staff) 2015-10-02