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wildcard-expansion

What does the double-asterisk (**) wildcard mean?

November 20, 2022 by Tarik

You’re most likely seeing a special feature of some shells that allow wildcard filename patterns to match across directory boundaries, as opposed to a single *, which is a wildcard that matches only within a directory. If you do not have such a shell, ** will likely be equivalent to *, because “matching zero or … Read more

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