single metacharacter wildcard

[Stumpr]

Whatis the AIX equivalent for the standard UNIX metacharacter "?" as a single character wildcard?



Bob Stump
VERITAS
"Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?" Bert Lahr, Wizard of Oz 1939

 

[khalidaaa]

Its the same in AIX!

? Wildcard
Use the ? to match any one character. The ? means any single character.

To refer to only the files that start with file and end with a single character, use:

file?
The files selected would be: file1 file2 file3

To refer to only the files that start with file and end with any two characters, use:

file??
The file selected would be: file10

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/aixuser/usrosdev/file_types.htm

Regards,
Khalid

 

[RodKnowlton]

In what context?

In most regular expression variants (awk,perl,egrep), the '?' metacharacter means "zero or 1 of the preceding character or subexpression".

The single character wildcard is typically '.'.

Please provide an example of your use of '?' that works on some other Unix, but not in AIX.

- Rod


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[Stumpr]

Thanks, its the same for standard UNIX. I didn't have a current login and I just wanted to make sure it was the same.

Bob Stump
VERITAS
"Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?" Bert Lahr, Wizard of Oz 1939