Wildcard Characters

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    • Wildcards and Links
      • Wildcard Characters
        • The * Wildcard
        • The ? Wildcard
        • Using the * wildcard characters with mv, cp, and rm
        • The Bracket ([]) Wildcard Character

Wildcard characters provide a convenient shorthand for specifying multiple file or directory names with a single name. Two of the most useful wildcard characters are the * and the ?. The * matches any arbitrary character string (including the null character), and the ? matches any single character.