WILDCARDS IN KALI LINUX

                                WILDCARDS IN KALI LINUX

     Wildcards are symbols that is used make the codings small multiple times . A single symbol(wildcard) is represents many . there are 4 types of wildcards.

    

they are :          

  •  An asterisk * – matches one or more occurrences of any character, including no character.
  • Question mark ? – represents or matches a single occurrence of any character.doesnot include no character.
  • Bracketed characters [ ] – matches any occurrence of character enclosed in the square brackets. It is possible to use different types of characters (alphanumeric characters): numbers, letters, other special characters etc. 


IMAGE THAT EXPLAINS ABOUT AN ASTERISK

List and Copy All Files


IMAGE THAT EXPLAINS ABOUT QUESTIONMARK



IMAGE THAT EXPLAINS ABOUT BRACKETED CHARACTERS :


Matching Files with Names



NOTE :We can use more than one wildcards in a same command


                                                                                                      BY:ARUNASS N V

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