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wildcards -- Definition Wildcards are characters that, in some circumstances, can represent a range of ASCII characters. Another name for them is ``metacharacters''. The wildcards available under COHERENT are as follows: ? Match any one character. * Match any number of characters, or no characters at all. [ ] A set of characters enclosed between `[' and `]' match any one character of the set. Sets of characters may include ranges, such as [a-z] for all lower-case letters or [0-9] for all numerals. [! ] A set of characters enclosed between `[!' and `]' match any one character except one of the set. Sets of characters may include ranges, such as [a-z] for all lower-case letters or [0-9] for all numerals. For example, the command ls [!abc]* prints the names of all files except those that begin with a, b, or c. \ Ignore the special meaning of a wildcard. See Also egrep, pattern, pnmatch(), Using COHERENT