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Sunday, March 23, 2008

METACHARACTERS OF UNIX

METACHARACTERS OF UNIX:

Metacharacters are special characters. The shell understands and interprets these

metacharacters in a special way.

*-specifies number of characters

?-specifies a single character


$ ls[t]*

List the files whose names begin with 't'

$ ls [a-m]*

List the files whose names begin with alphabets from 'a' to 'm'

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