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(8) Filename Wildcards

Filename Wildcards

The following characters are interpreted by the shell as filename wildcards, and any word containing them is replaced by a sorted list of all the matching files.

Wildcards may be used in the directory parts of a pathname as well as the filename part. If no files match the wildcard, it is left unchanged. Wildcards are not full regular expressions. Sed, grep, awk etc. work with more flexible (and more complex) string matching operators.

*: Match zero or more characters.
?: Match any single character
[...]: Match any single character from the bracketed set. A range of characters can be specified with [ - ]
[!...]: Match any single character NOT in the bracketed set.

An initial "." in a filename does not match a wildcard unless explicitly given in the pattern. In this sense filenames starting with "." are hidden. A "." elsewhere in the filename is not special.
Pattern operators can be combined

Example:
chapter[1-5].* could match chapter1.tex, chapter4.tex, chapter5.tex.old. It would not match chapter10.tex or chapter1

wildcards.src last modified Mar 11, 2005

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