what is the use of wild cards?

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what is the use of wild cards?..

Answer / bharath

? Matches any one character in a filename.

* Matches any character or characters in a filename.

[ ] Matches one of the characters included inside
the [ ] symbols.

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what is the use of wild cards?..

Answer / sowmya

For matching the characters in the file

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