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Bash Extended Globbing

October 12, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Wildcards in bash are referred to as pathname expansion. Pathname expansion is also sometimes referred to as globbing. Pathname expansion "expands" the "*", "?", and "[...]" syntaxes when you type them as part of a command, for example:

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