Wildcards

(Appendix 12)


Wildcard characters 

Most of the search commands or list commands and some configuration files
as well accept wildcards.

 Character Replaces
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 @         a letter
 ?         an alphanum character (letter or number)
 =         a printable character
 #         a numeral character or the # character
 *         a string of printable characters.
 &         a dot followed by printable characters. (example - .* )
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