Wildcards are an incredibly useful tool when it comes to filing management in Linux, as they allow the user to search for multiple files or folders without needing to know their exact names.
There are several types of wildcards, including the asterisk (*), which matches any number of characters, and is particularly useful for bulk operations, while the question mark (?) matches any single character.
Users can also use bracketed expressions ([]) to match any character that falls within the brackets, negation (!) to exclude certain characters, and braces ({}) to specify multiple, comma-separated patterns.
Wildcards can be used with most Linux commands, such as find, ls, cp, and rm, and can perform operations on entire folders or specific file types.
Finally, it should be noted that wildcards in Linux are case-sensitive, meaning that filenames with different letter cases are treated as distinct, and users should use character classes or case-insensitive options in commands if they want to match both uppercase and lowercase variations.
