How Do You Copy Wildcards in Linux?

How Do You Copy Wildcards in Linux?
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How do I copy multiple wildcards in Linux?

Multiple files or directories can be copied to a destination directory at once. In this case, target must be a directory. To copy multiple files you can use wildcards (cp *. extension) having same pattern.

How do you use wildcards in Linux?

There are three main wildcards in Linux:

  1. An asterisk (*) – matches one or more occurrences of any character, including no character.
  2. Question mark (?) – represents or matches a single occurrence of any character.
  3. Bracketed characters ([ ]) – matches any occurrence of character enclosed in the square brackets.
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