This is quick note about wildcard usage for the  Linux command line particularly on  how to select/include some files among the others. Let say you have a directory  that contains the following files: $ls mh apache-log.tar.gz.00 apache-log.tar.gz.01 apache-log.tar.gz.02 apache-log.tar.gz.03 apache-log.tar.gz.04 apache-log.tar.gz.05 apache-log.tar.gz.06 apache-log.tar.gz.07 apache-log.tar.gz.08 apache-log.tar.gz.09 apache-log.tar.gz.10 apache-log.tar.gz.11 apache-log.tar.gz.12 apache-log.tar.gz.13 To copy the first 10 files,  […]