Bash Patterns

External

• Gnu bash Manual - Pattern Matching

Internal

• bash
• bash Parameter and Variable Expansion
• Regular Expressions

Metacharacters

The following characters have a special meaning when a bash pattern is evaluated, and they need to be escaped to be matched literally:

/ # slash
~ # tilda
* # star

Non-Special Characters

These characters do not need to be escaped in bash patterns to match:

\ # forward slash