Definition of "wildcards" []

• Plural form of wildcard. (noun)

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• "· Searching can be done using various criteria, such as file name wildcards, substring, regular expression, date, time, file attributes"
• "$ yum list 'foo' Search for a package when you're not sure of the name, using ordinary regular expression wildcards:"
• "WILDCARDS: When searching for, copying or deleting files, you can use "wildcards" if you are not sure of the file's exact name. ls man* would find the following files: manual, manual. txt, man-o-man."