special character ?

mile1982 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-19-2004

hey there

im a bit stuck on executing commands that include the special character '?'. can someone recommend a way on how i would be able to execute it?? i thought the glob function could be useful (still mite be) but upon entering the command
'ls pars?' it listed all the files in the directory instead of only those that the first four letter are pars.

help would be appreciated.
mile1982

S.P.Prasad · #2 (**permalink**) 10-19-2004

I don't think '?' is treated as a metacharacter in a regular expression. The match routines would then literally search for a '?' at the desired location. Try using '.' instead of '?'.

Hope this helps.

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