{"id":48424,"date":"2024-11-27T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48424"},"modified":"2024-11-27T21:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:08:59","slug":"linux-double-asterisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-double-asterisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: double asterisk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Linux and Bash: the tutor mentions the double asterisk expression.<\/h2>\nIn articles I&#8217;ve been consulting about Linux and Github, I&#8217;ve been seeing ** in paths. What does **, aka the double asterisk, mean?<\/p>\n<p>\nAs I understand, ** is a wild card that means &#8220;one or more directories.&#8221; Therefore, if the top directory is dir_one, then dir_one\/**\/hello.txt would include dir_one\/hello.txt but also dir_one\/a\/b\/c\/hello.txt.<\/p>\n<p>\nYet, apparently ** doesn&#8217;t always work on a given shell, at least not without the option to allow it being set.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/bennlee\/92ffaa27eea326da46e538a80c3eebae\">gist.github.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/28176590\/what-does-the-double-asterisk-wildcard-mean\">stackoverflow.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Linux and Bash: the tutor mentions the double asterisk expression. In articles I&#8217;ve been consulting about Linux and Github, I&#8217;ve been seeing ** in paths. What does **, aka the double asterisk, mean? As I understand, ** is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/linux-double-asterisk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux: double asterisk<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[3460],"class_list":["post-48424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-directory-wildcards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48425,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48424\/revisions\/48425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}