Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob') - TUHS

9 Jul 2017

On 7/9/17, ron minnich &lt;rminnich(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
...
    All the
DEC-10 and 11 operating systems I used had that wildcard, as well
 as IIRC even the PDP-8, maybe someone can confirm the -8.

 It would have been nice had RE's been the standard way to glob files, but,
 that said, when I mention .*\.c to people instead of *.c they don't much
 like it. 
So when were REs first designed and implemented?  I would imagine that
they came about as a way to extend the old '*' and '?' wildcard
syntax, but that is only a guess.

-Paul W.