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I see this command being given as how to search and replace strings in files in this answer:

sed -i -- 's/foo/bar/g' **/*(D.)

What does the pattern */*(D) mean? I am not sure what they are called, so cannot google them. Is this part of sed parameters, or is it part of zsh? Thanks!

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    For the parenthesis part, with tab completion enabled you can type echo *( and then mash TAB to see a quick name/description table of the glob qualifiers. – thrig Dec 14 '16 at 20:22

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The generic name is glob qualifiers. For zsh there is a list under the Filename Generation section of the documentation.

Patterns used for filename generation may end in a list of qualifiers
enclosed in parentheses. The qualifiers specify which filenames that 
otherwise match the given pattern will be inserted in the argument list.

In particular:

.

    plain files

and

D

    sets the GLOB_DOTS option for the current pattern
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