Programming and posix - April 2002

April 3, 2002
Solution Symposium
Page 77
hp e3000
programming
and posix
posix shell file/directory substitution
• ~user replaced by user’s home directory
• cd ~MGR.APACHE/htdocs = /APACHE/PUB/htdocs
• * ? [] - pathname wildcards replaced by possibly
multiple files/dirs
• * - zero or more characters
• ? - one character
• [] - group or range (first-last) of characters
• /*/PUB/foo.bar - foo.bar in every PUB group on
the machine
• /SYS/PUB/LOG???? - all system log files
• foo/[a-z]* - all initially lowercase files in foo dir