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        !             3: wildcards                   Definition                  wildcards
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        !             8: Wildcards  are  characters   that,  in  some  circumstances,  can
        !             9: represent a range of  ASCII characters.  Another name for them is
        !            10: ``metacharacters''.  The  wildcards available under  COHERENT are
        !            11: as follows:
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        !            13: ?    Match any one character.
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        !            15: *    Match any number of characters, or no characters at all.
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        !            17: [ ]  A set of characters enclosed between `[' and `]'  will match
        !            18:      any one  character of the  set.  Sets of  characters may in-
        !            19:      clude ranges,  such as [aa-zz]  for all lower-case  letters or
        !            20:      [00-99] for all numerals.
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        !            22: \    Ignore the special meaning of a wildcard.
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        !            24: ***** See Also *****
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        !            26: definitions, egrep, patterns, pnmatch()
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