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wildcards or metacharacters
If you have several files in your directory with similar names, you can list them
all at once by using wildcards or metacharacters.
These special characters are:
- * - replaces any number of characters in a file name.
For example:
-
rohan% ls *tion
will list all files in the directory that end in tion (such as solution, polution
or execution)
-
rohan% ls Sa*
will list all files in the directory that begin with Sa (such as Saturday,
Sadly or Sarah).
- ? - replaces any one character only. For example:
rohan% ls s?t
will list all files in the directory that start with s, end in t and are three
letters long (sit or sat).
- [ ] - replaces any number of characters between the
brackets. For example:
rohan% ls [bcs]at
will list all files in the directory that start with b, c, or s and end with at (bat,
cat or sat).
rohan% ls chap[1-3]
will list all files that start with chap and end in 1, 2 or 3.
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