What is wild card to select all directories in a directory

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i want to set sticky bit for all directories in a directory excluding files. is there any wild card to do this?

#sudo chmod g+s /var/www/<WILD_CARD_FOR_ALL_DIRECTORIES>

Use */ to match only directories.

chmod g+s /var/www/*/

To match all directories and subdirectories use **/*/ (provided you have globstar enabled in bash):

shopt -s globstar
chmod g+s /var/www/**/*/

If using GNU find, you can do

find /path -path '*/.*' -ls | tee output-file

Edit

To avoid to show non-hidden items contained in hidden directories

find /path -name '.*' >output-file

(as noted, tee could be avoided if you do not need to see the output, and -ls option should be used only if required).

In bash you can use extglob:

 $ shopt -s extglob  # to enable extglob
 $ cp !(b*) new_dir/

where !(b*) exclude all b* files.

You can later disable extglob with

 $ shopt -u extglob