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File Globbing

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Even just a few levels in, you might already be tired of typing out all these file paths. Luckily, the shell has a solution: globbing! That's what we'll learn in this module.

Before executing commands that you enter, the shell first performs expansions on them, and one of these expansions is globbing. Globbing lets you reference files without typing them all out, or typing out their full paths. Let's dig in!

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Challenges

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Matching with *
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Matching with ?
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Matching with []
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Matching paths with []
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Multiple globs
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Mixing globs
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Exclusionary globbing
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Tab completion
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Multiple options for tab completion
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Tab completion on commands