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If you’ve found yourself dabbling in file management tasks, whether it be through a command terminal on Unix, Linux, or even Windows, knowing how to effectively use wildcards can significantly speed up your workflow. Wildcards are powerful characters or strings used in file commands to help match or filter out files with matching patterns. Common wildcards include the asterisk (*), the question mark (?), and character ranges ([]). We will explore how each of these wildcards can be used to perform file operations efficiently. The asterisk is perhaps the most widely recognized wildcard character. It is used to represent any number of characters, including no character, in file and directory names.