Replacement characters or wildcards.
Most of the search commands or list commands and some configuration files
as well, accept replacement characters or wildcards.
Character Replaces
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@ a letter
? an alphanum character (letter or number)
= a printable character
# a numeral character or the # character
* a string of printable characters.
& a dot followed by printable characters. (equiv to .* )
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