Recently I was writing a bash-script and added a line:
$ echo *
and got an output of file names and directory names. What is the context of this list (just out of curiosity)?
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Please search the site, this question was asked many times before. – cuonglm Mar 06 '16 at 16:10
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I tried to couldn't find it. Can you provide a link? Thanks! – Lageos Mar 06 '16 at 16:16
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@cuonglm I'm sure it has but there's no ([working](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/249848/search-using-symbols-is-broken), [discoverable](http://data.stackexchange.com/)) way to search for punctuation here. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mar 06 '16 at 16:36
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@Gilles: yeap, I mean trying to search but not limited to the site search engine. I myself often use Google, although it does not support punctuation, too. Something like `Gilles + echo + asterisk site: unix.stackexchange.com` would give me some interesting links – cuonglm Mar 06 '16 at 17:09