10 Nov
2004
10 Nov
'04
22:38
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 08:27, 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/
appreciated
Wildcards at the cli... * matches all characters - *.pl ? matches any single character - som?file.pl [a,b,d-f] matches single and ranges of characters - som[e,E]file[0-9,1-5].pl Hope this helps a little. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*