"Shell" wildcard characters and special symbols

--from "Brother Bird's Linux private dish"

There is also a very useful feature in Bash's operating environment, which is the wildcard character (wildcard)! It's even easier for us to use bash to process data! Below is a list of some common wildcard characters:

Symbol	Significance
*	Represents "0 to infinity" of any character
?	Represents "must have a" any character
[ ]	Also means "there must be a character in parentheses" (not any character). For example [ABCD] represents "must have a character, may be a, B, C, d these four any one"
[ - ]	If a minus sign is inside the brackets, it represents "all characters in the code order." For example [0-9] represents all numbers between 0 and 9, because the language encoding of the numbers is continuous!
[^ ]	If the first character in the brackets is an exponential sign (^), that means "invert selection", for example [^ABC] means that there must be a character, as long as the other characters of non-A, B, C are accepted.

Next use the wildcard character with LS to find the file name to see:

Example one: Find the file name that starts with cron under/etc/ ll-d/etc/cron* <== Plus-D is to show only the table of contents Example two: Find the file name "exactly five letters" under/etc/ <== because? There must be one, so five of them? That's right. example three: Find out the file name of the/etc/under the filename contains the number of the file name <== Remember the brackets around the left and right side of the * example four: Find out the/etc/, the file name starts with a non-lowercase file name: <== Note the left side of the bracket is not * Example Five: Copy the files found in sample four to/tmp CP-A/etc/[^a-z]*/tmp

In addition to wildcards, the following special symbols are available in the bash environment:

Symbol	Content
#	notation: This is most commonly used in script, as a description! None of the data is running after
\	Skip symbol: Revert a "special character or wildcard" to a normal character
|	Pipeline (pipe): Delimited two pipeline command definition (the latter two sections are introduced);
;	Continuous command Release delimiter: definition of continuity command (note!) Not the same as the pipeline command)
~	User's home directory
$	Take the variable leader: that is, the variable that needs to be added before the variable to replace the value
&	Job Control: Turn the command into a background job
!	The meaning of "not" in the sense of logical operation!
/	Directory symbols: path-delimited symbols
, >>	Data flow redirection: output-oriented, "replace" and "accumulate", respectively
<, <<	Data flow redirection: Input orientation (these two are for the next section)
‘ ‘	Single quotes, no function of variable substitution
" "	function with variable substitution!
` `	Two "'" in the middle of the command can be run first, also use $ ()
( )	The beginning and end of the child shell in the middle
{ }	In the middle for a combination of command blocks!

These are the special symbol sinks that are common in bash environments! In theory, your "file name" try not to use the above characters!

"Shell" wildcard characters and special symbols