Você está usando um curinga - *
que é usado com globbing
e file-expansion
.
O link mencionado acima descreve isso ainda mais:
Standard wildcards (also known as globbing patterns) are used by various command-line utilities to work with multiple files. For more information on standard wildcards (globbing patterns) refer to the manual page by typing:
e
*
(asterisk) this can represent any number of characters (including zero, in other words, zero or more characters). If you specified a
"cd*" it would use "cda", "cdrom", "cdrecord" and anything that starts
with “cd” also including “cd” itself. "m*l" could by mill, mull, ml,
and anything that starts with an m and ends with an l.