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Commands tagged wildcard

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rm *.txt <TAB> <TAB>
2010-11-04 13:58:15
User: boschi
Functions: rm
Tags: wildcard glob expansion
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prevent accidents while using wildcards

alternative for "echo rm *.txt". Just doubletab the command you are willing to use and it will show you the affected files.

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echo rm *.txt
2010-10-27 07:26:26
User: alperyilmaz
Functions: echo rm
Tags: echo wildcard glob expansion
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prevent accidents and test your command with echo

if you're using wildcards * or ? in your command, and if you're deleting, moving multiple files, it's always safe to see how those wildcards will expand. if you put "echo" in front of your command, the expanded form of your command will be printed. It's better safe than sorry.

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`ls`
2009-08-17 03:56:05
User: matthewbauer
Tags: wildcard
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Equivelant of a Wildcard

This is exactly the same as a wildcard - good for times when wildcards are disabled and when you want have a wildcard of a directory that is not your current ({`ls /path/to/dir`}). Does not work on older versions of Bash though.

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tail -f *[!.1][!.gz]
2009-03-06 16:24:44
User: piscue
Functions: tail
Tags: bash tail wildcard log
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useful tail on /var/log to avoid old logs or/and gzipped files

with discard wilcards in bash you can "tail" newer logs files to see what happen, any error, info, warn...

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