Summary

In this hour, you really have had a chance to build on the knowledge you're picking up about UNIX with your introduction to an exciting and powerful UNIX utility: grep. Finally, what's a poker hand without some new wildcards? Because one-eyed jacks don't make much sense in UNIX, you instead learned how to specify ranges of characters in filename patterns, further ensuring that you can type the minimum number of keys for maximum effect.

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