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Whee! Learned how to copy multiple files, each in their own folder, up one level (to the current working directory). E. g.

cp Folder0$/*.pdf .

"$" is a wildcard for one character
* is a wildcard for any number of characters
. is current directory

Small, but I'm proud of myself for taking the time to look it up instead of doing it by hand.

@nev I’ve been doing this for 20 years and never heard of $ as a wildcard for a single char. I’m wondering if that’s bash-specific...

@feld someone just pointed out to me it was a typo!

OH SHIT Y'ALL THAT WAS A TYPO

"?" is the single character wildcard

I repeat, "?"

If you use the dollar sign idk your computer will blow up or something!!!

I'm sorry about any computers that have blown up in the interim. I was off taking pictures of house spider's

@nev I USED $ AS A WILDCARD AND NOW THERE ARE SPIDER'S IN MY COMPUTER

@nev In my understanding, the $ dereferences a variable, and as what follows is not a variable, I think you can rest easy.

@nev for some reason the ? wildcard is somehow much less well known than *