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Defining files with wildcard characters

Defining files with wildcard characters

Wildcard characters can be used to represent many other characters. Use them whenever you need to define a string of characters, such as a filename, for use with a command.

Useful wildcards are:

* - matches any characters

? - match any single character

[...] - matches any character in the enclosed list or range.