Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

More globbing

Globbing is very present in Linux. If you're dealing with a command that handles files (which, under the everything is a file principle, is most commands), there is a good chance that you can use globbing. To give you an impression of this, consider the following examples:

reader@ubuntu:~/scripts/chapter_10$ cat *eeee2ee eaaaa2aa aaabbWe can use this regular file for testing grep.Regular expressions are pretty coolDid you ever realise that in the UK they say colour,but in the USA they use color (and realize)!Also, New Zealand is pretty far away.

The cat command, combined with the wildcard glob pattern, prints the contents of all files in the current working directory. In this case, since all files are ASCII text, this was not ...