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For the first question, a possible solution is not too hard. Put Y=\\\(.${1//\?/.}
Y=${Y/../\\\)..}
ls $1 | sed "s#$Y#\1#"
into a script and run it with your (quoted!) pattern as parameter 1....

So - you want to ls the files matching the pattern and then remove the portinon matching one char wildcards ?, but keep the more generic wildcard(s) * matches? And you want to keep chars given...

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I don't understand what you're trying to do. The only static data matched by the pattern *.dat_???? is .dat_. The 1st character of each filename is matched by the asterisk in the pattern and the 4...