Objective: Use wildcards to search for files and directories.

Description: In this activity, you use the common wildcards $*$ and $?.$ You also see the results of more uncommon wildcards.

$1.$ If necessary, start VMware Player and start an openSUSE virtual machine. Log in to openSUSE as a user other than root, and open a terminal window.

$2.$ Use the absolute method to change to the $/$etc directory by typing ed $/$etc and pressing Enter.

$3.$ Display a long list of files and directories in the $/$etc directory by typing Is $-$I and pressing Enter.

$4.$ Display a long list of files and directories in the $/$etc directory starting with the letter

$"$h$"$ by typing Is $-$I h$*$ and pressing Enter. How are the results different from Step $32$

$5.$ Display a long list of files and directories in the $/$etc directory and use two wildcards by typing Is $-$I $*\mathrm{.}2$ and pressing Enter. How are the results different from Step $3?$

$6.$ Display a long list of files and directories in the $/$etc directory starting with a$,$ c$,$ or k by typing Is $-1($ack$|*$ and pressing Enter.

$7.$ Display a long list of files and directories in the $/$etc directory starting with a$,$ b$,$ or c by typing Is $-1($a$-$c$]*$ and pressing Enter.

$8.$ Display a long list of files and directories in the $/$ete directory that don't start with the letters a through s by typing Is $-1($la$-$s$]*$ and pressing Enter.

$9.$ Change the current directory by typing ed $/$h$*$ and pressing Enter. What happened, and why?

$10.$ Leave the terminal window open and the virtual machine running for the next activity.