Globbing lets the shell expand patterns into matching filenames before a command runs. These patterns work in Bash and most POSIX-compatible shells.
| Glob | Description |
|---|---|
* | Match zero or more characters in a filename |
? | Match exactly one character |
[abc...] | Match any one of the enclosed characters |
[!abc...] | Match any character not enclosed |
[a-z] | Match any character in the specified range (lowercase) |
[A-Z] | Match any character in the specified range (uppercase) |
[0-9] | Match any digit |
[[:alpha:]] | Match any alphabetic character |
[[:digit:]] | Match any numeric character |
[[:alnum:]] | Match any alphabetic or numeric character |
[[:space:]] | Match any whitespace character |
[[:punct:]] | Match any punctuation character |
[^abc...] | Match any character except those in the set |
\ | Escape character to match special glob characters literally |