Means that the preceding symbol (or group of symbols) is optional. That is,
it may appear once or not at all.
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+<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item__">*</A></STRONG><DD>
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Means that the preceding symbol (or group of symbols) may appear zero or
more times.
<STRONG>sudo</STRONG> allows shell-style <EM>wildcards</EM> to be used in pathnames as well as command line arguments in the <EM>sudoers</EM> file. Wildcard matching is done via the <STRONG>POSIX</STRONG> <CODE>fnmatch(3)</CODE> routine. Note that these are <EM>not</EM> regular expressions.
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+<DT><STRONG>*</STRONG><DD>
<P>
Matches any set of zero or more characters.