Filename Metacharacters
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Match any string of zero or more characters. |
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Match any single character. |
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Match any one of the enclosed
characters; a hyphen can specify a range (e.g., |
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Match any character not enclosed as above. |
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Home directory of the current user. |
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Home directory of user name. |
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Current working directory ($PWD). |
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Previous working directory ($OLDPWD). |
In the Korn shell, or Bash with the extglob option on:
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Match zero or one instance of pattern. |
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Match zero or more instances of pattern. |
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Match one or more instances of pattern. |
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Match exactly one instance of pattern. |
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Match any strings that don’t match pattern. |
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Match the text matched by the
n‘th subpattern in |
This pattern can be a sequence of
patterns separated by |, meaning
that the match applies to any of the patterns. This extended syntax
resembles that available in egrep
and awk. In the Korn shell, but
not in Bash, if & is used
instead of |, all the patterns
must match. & has higher
precedence than |.
ksh93 and Bash support the
POSIX [[=c=]]
notation for matching characters that have the same weight, and
[[.c.]] for specifying collating
sequences. In addition, character classes, of the form [[:class:]], allow you to match the
following classes of characters.
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Class |
Characters matched |
Class |
Characters matched |
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Alphanumeric characters ... |