Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

Globbing

We now have the basics of regular expressions under control. There is another subject closely related to regular expressions on Linux: globbing. Even though you probably didn't realize it, you've already seen examples of globbing in this book.

Even better, there is actually a good chance you've used a glob pattern in practice. If, when working on the command line, you've ever used the wildcard character, *, you've been globbing!