Wildcards

The characters * and ?

The character * is called a wildcard, and will match against none or more character(s) in a file (or directory) name. For example, in your stuff directory, type

$HOME $> ls list*

This will list all files in the current directory starting with list... Try typing

$HOME $> ls *list

This will list all files in the current directory ending with ...list. The character ? will match exactly one character. So ls ?ouse will match files like house and mouse, but not grouse. Try typing

$HOME $> ls ?list