Or if you wanted to list all the filesystem objects in /etc beginning with g, you could type:

$ ls -d /etc/g*
/etc/gconf  /etc/ggi  /etc/gimp  /etc/gnome  /etc/gnome-vfs-mime-magic  /etc/gpm  /etc/group  /etc/group-

Now, what happens if you specify a pattern that doesn't match any filesystem objects? In the following example, we try to list all the files in /usr/bin that begin with asdf and end with jkl:

$ ls -d /usr/bin/asdf*jkl
ls: /usr/bin/asdf*jkl: No such file or directory