Bash Extended Globbing

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 9, 2008 11:37 AM EDT
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Wildcards in bash are referred to as pathname expansion. Pathname expansion is also sometimes referred to as globbing. Pathname expansion "expands" the "*", "?", and "[...]" syntaxes when you type them as part of a command, for example..

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Annoying globbing Sander_Marechal 12 1,525 Oct 11, 2008 4:32 AM

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