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Appendix Suffixes for data types
with-wild(n)
(continued) <s
1
,…> Replaces all strings that match any of the character combina-
tions specified by s. s may also be an empty string. Any such
string may also be a range specification “s
x
:s
y
” (see above).
-s Replaces all strings that do not match the specified string s.
The minus sign may only appear at the beginning of string s.
Within the data types filename or partial-filename the negated
string -s can be used exactly once, i.e. -s can replace one of
the three name components: cat, user or file.
Wildcards are not permitted in generation and version specifications for file
names. Only the system administration may use wildcards in user IDs.
Wildcards cannot be used to replace the delimiters in name components cat
(colon) and user ($ and period).
POSIX
wildcards
Meaning
* Replaces any single string (including an empty string). An *
appearing at the first position must be duplicated if it is followed
by other characters and if the entered string does not include
at least one further wildcard.
? Replaces any single character; not permitted as the first
character outside single quotes.
[c
x
-c
y
] Replaces any single character from the range defined by c
x
and c
y
, including the limits of the range. c
x
and c
y
must be
normal characters.
[s] Replaces exactly one character from string s.
The expressions [c
x
-c
y
] and [s] can be combined into
[s
1
c
x
-c
y
s
2
]
[!c
x
-c
y
] Replaces exactly one character not in the range defined by c
x
and c
y,
including the limits of the range
.
c
x
and c
y
must be
normal characters.
The expressions [!c
x
-c
y
] and [!s] can be combined into
[!s
1
c
x
-c
y
s
2
]
[!s] Replaces exactly one character not contained in string s. The
expressions [!s] and [!c
x
-c
y
] can be combined into [!s
1
c
x
-c
y
s
2
]
Suffix Meaning
Table 11: Data type suffixes (part 3 of 7)