Introduction to file wildcards in CentOS

Introduction to file wildcards in CentOS

*: Matches zero or multiple characters.

? : Match any single character

~ : Current user's home directory

~ Username: user's home directory

~ +: Current working directory

~ -: Previous working directory

[0-9]: match any number range

[A-z]: match any lowercase letter (Note: Depends on the file system)

[A-Z]: match any uppercase letter

[Wxc]: match any character w, x, or c in the list.

[^ Wxc]: matches all characters except wxc in the list.

[: Digit:]: any number, which is equivalent to 0-9. Double brackets must be added during use. [[: digit:]

[: Lower:]: Any lowercase letter, equivalent to a-z, must be added with double brackets [[: lower:]

[: Upper:]: any capital letter, equivalent to a A-Z, must be added with double brackets in use [[: upper:]

[: Alpha:]: any size of letters

[: Alnum:]: any number or letter

[: Blank:]: horizontal white space character

[: Space:]: All blank characters

[: Punct:]: All punctuation marks

[: Print:]: printable characters

[: Cntrl:]: control (non-print) characters

[: Graph:]: Graphical character

[: Xdigit:]: hexadecimal character B