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Wilcards Linux Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Simple wildcard cheatsheet

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Wilcards

*
Any characters
?
Any single character
[chara­cters]
Any character that is a member of characters
[!char­acters]
Any chacters that is not a member of characters
[[:cla­ss:]]
Any character that is a member of the specified class
 

Commonly used character classes

[:alnum:]
Any alphan­umeric character
[:alpha:]
Any alphabetic character
[:digit:]
Any numeral
[:lower:]
Any lowercase letter
[:upper:]
Any uppercase letter
[a-zA-Z]
Any letter
[0-9]
Any digit