10 Nov
2004
10 Nov
'04
21:11
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi,
On some occasions I have had to type a very long command that is not in the history file or access multiple file with a common character.
ie files aa, ab, ac, ad, ae, af
What character could I use to simulate wild cards similar to the DOS * ie
$> cp /home/a* /home/hylton/
Well, you could try characters such as * and ?. They tend to work well. Also, you may want to read up on the bash shell for lots of possible techniques. There's a lot more available, than in DOS.