Wildcard Abuse
A wildcard character can be used as a replacement for other characters and are interpreted by the shell before other actions. Examples of wild cards include:
| Character | Significance |
|---|---|
| An asterisk that can match any number of characters in a file name. |
| Matches a single character. |
| Brackets enclose characters and can match any single one at the defined position. |
| A tilde at the beginning expands to the name of the user home directory or can have another username appended to refer to that user's home directory. |
| A hyphen within brackets will denote a range of characters. |
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