The ULTRIX pattern style enables the special interpretation of wildcard characters and a quote character in the search-string parameter as shown below: ULTRIX-Style Wildcards Wildcard Matches . A single character. ^ Beginning of a line. $ End of a line. [set-of- Any character in the specified set. For example, characters] [abc] matches any letter in the set "abc" and [c-t] matches any letter in the set "c" through "t." [^set-of- Anything not in the specified set of characters. characters] \ Lets you specify the characters \,.,^,$,[,],or * in wildcard expressions. For example, \\ matches the backslash character (\). * Repeats the previous pattern zero or more times, including the original. + Repeats the previous pattern at least once, including the original; that is, a null occurrence does not match. For example the following command will find a line starting with a, b or c: SEARCH/PATTERN "^[abc]"