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4. Wildcards
Wildcards are special characters used in shell scripts to represent one or more characters in file names.
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Shell
Wildcards
Wildcards are special characters that simplify file name matching in shell commands.
"I want to manipulate multiple files without typing each name individually."
Wildcards allow you to represent one or more characters in file names, making it easier to work with groups of files in shell scripts.
"I want to manipulate multiple files without typing each name individually."
Wildcards allow you to represent one or more characters in file names, making it easier to work with groups of files in shell scripts.