what are wild cards?

Answer Posted / upendar

Wild Cards are Special Characters.
Wild cards in UNIX is:

? 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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