Meaning of (/.*)
 

I have seen the expression (/.*) to many times in command line but i cant find the explanation for this expresion, can anyone help me?

Can you please provide an example or two?

for example:


semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/data(/.*)?"

@mpzfm1: /data(/.*)? is a regular expression which means folder /data and possible subdirectories/files.
The whole command adds file-context for everything under /data.