[]: Square brackets are used in the shell in conjunction with regular expressions for searching and replacing (I think -- is there another use?). For example, if you want to search for any numeric character (in a command like find??) you can search for [0..9].

(I think this definition needs some work.)

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• RandyKramer - 16 Feb 2002
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