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Re: Single Substitution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Tue Dec 1 21:59:18 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 17:54:26 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Darren Greer wrote:
>
> Is there a way on Linux to do a single character substitution.
> Instead of doing a cp /whatever/as*
> Do a cp /whatever/as@df (or something similar)?
as?df
The asterisk means "all, up to and including, or from here on"
and the question mark "just this character position"
as?df
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