what are wild cards?
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Answer / upendar
Wild Cards are Special Characters.
Wild cards in UNIX is:
? Matches any one character in a filename.
* Matches any character or characters in a filename.
[ ] Matches one of the characters included inside the [ ] symbols.
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Answer / manpreet jhandi
Symbol used to replace or represent one or more characters.
Wildcards or wild characters are either an asterisk (*),
which represents one or more characters or question mark (?),
which represents a single character.
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