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Pathname wildcards ("globbing")

Since another goal of Unix is to type as little as possible, there are several metacharacters that serve as wildcards to represent sets of characters when typing file names. Using these metacharacters is called globbing (don't ask me why (smile)) and the pattern is called a glob.

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