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5. Introducing wildcards
  


Wildcard syntax: ? page 6 of 11



?

? matches any single character. Examples:

  • myfile? matches any file whose name consists of myfile followed by a single character.
  • /tmp/notes?txt would match both /tmp/notes.txt and /tmp/notes_txt, if they exist.


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