Questions tagged [globbing]
Globbing is a way to match sets of paths without explicitly specifying paths. For example, the * glob would match all paths in a directory.
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Does a wildcard inside double-quotes glob? [closed]
On a "standard BASH" does a wildcard inside double-quotes glob? For example:
$ touch abc
$ ls "*abc*"
would that, or wouldn't that work on bash?
I was told Ubuntu shipped with a bash variant that ...
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Is it possible to use brace expansion and globbing together?
Say I wanted to copy the .ssh/authorized_keys file in each user's /home directory to /tmp (for whatever reason). I figured I could use globbing and brace expansion to do this quickly, but I ran into ...
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"ls" or regex is case insensitive?
In bash, I tried
ls [a-z]*
and expected to list all the files with filename starts with small case alphabet. But why the files with name starts with big case alphabet are also shown?
>ls [a-z]*
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How to expand * on Bash command line
I understand that if you type ls * it is actually expanded to ls a b c when the current directly has files a, b and c.
I was wondering if there is a way to expand this before I hit enter. Similar to ...
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Does bash's * match files in alphanumeric order?
I want to concatenate a bunch of files together in filename order.
Is it safe to assume that this will give me them in alphanumeric order?
cat *
i.e. the same order that ls gives.
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Will rm -rf * remove all files/folders in the current directory?
Will rm -rf * remove all files/folders in the current directory ? I want to make sure the wildcard * won't move up in upper directories and erase all my filesystem. :D
I remember doing chmod 777 .* -...
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