* Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>, 2018-11-03, 12:41:
It handles the * and ? jokers,
s/joker/wildcard/ ?
Backspace (\) is used as an escape character.
I like the idea of backspace as escape character, but you probably meant "backslash" here. :-)
-- Jakub Wilk