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Wild cards and examples in unix

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Wild cards and examples in unix language.

Wild cards

The character which are used for a generalized pattern for file matching are called as wildcards.

Examples

ls chap01 chap04
use ls chap*
* is used as a metacharacter

Example of * for any characters

ls cap*

Example of ? for a single character

ls test-??.sh

Example of [jda] for single charater - either of j else d else a

ls [t]*.sh

Example of [x-z] files withing the x to z

ls [a-t]*

Example of [!jda] A single character that is not within the j ,d and a

ls [!t]*

Example of [!x-z] A single character that is not withing the range of x to z

ls [!a-t]*

Example of Escaping

develop the file with the name chap01, chap02, chap03, chap04.

ls chap0[1-4]
ls chap0\[1-4\]
  
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