Kids these days .... :-) Although, I bet if you had called it a regular expression - they might have understood. My SW professional daughter learned about regular expressions in the CS theory course a couple of years ago. It was an "ah ha moment" for her. I had tried to teach her 'globing' years early (unsuccessfully at the time). But she remembered enough of the lesson it turns out. Clem On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:54 PM, ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:

From GLOB.MAC, TOPS-10 circa 1988 (not sure what version that is): TITLE GLOB -- GLOBAL CROSS-REFERENCE DIRECTORY LISTING http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/cgi-bin/searchbyname?name=glob.mac Earliest version in that archive, 7-19-1975 but there are copyright dates going back to 1968 ;COPYRIGHT 1968,1969,1970,1971,1972, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP., MAYNARD, MASS. On 7/7/2017 3:51 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:

You are correct. Woops. Sorry I left that part out. Was just replying to whoever said there was a GLOB in TOPS-10. On 7/8/2017 1:03 PM, Random832 wrote:

Doug would probably be a better source, but, as you know, grep stands for global regular expression print.  This is a literal translation into words of a common idiom in vi (and ed before that):  g/xxx/p which prints all the lines that match xxx.  The g means that it finds all lines, rather than just searching for one. Since glob tends to match more than one thing, but not in the usual way, I suspect that it is a shortening of "global regular expression print"  (with no print, and not, strictly speaking, the usual regular expression syntax either)... As to why regular expressions are called "regular" expressions, that happened long before Unix... Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clem Cole" <clemc(a)ccc.com> To: "Noel Chiappa" <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "TUHS main list" <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> Sent: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 13:37:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob' This is matches my memory/was the way I learned it - ie glob was just short for "global" (expression). Steve / Doug any memories? On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu [1]> wrote: Something about global expressions. I recall reading about this somewhere; I tried looking in the man page:   http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/glob.7 [2] but it didn't go into any detail. I don't know where I could have seen it, alas...         Noel Links: ------ [1] mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu [2] http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/glob.7