What happens when you type ls *.c ?

Brayan Florez
1 min readSep 17, 2019

First of all, let’s see a picture so we can have an idea in how the command works

As we know, the ls command allows us to list all files and directories in the current directory so basically what we’re doing with this command is to search all files and directories finishing with “.c” extension by using the wildcard asterisk (*) as we could see in the image.

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