[TUHS] origin of the name 'glob'

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Jul 8 02:55:46 AEST 2017


    > From: Ron Minnich

    > Why was it called glob? I always wondered.

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

but it didn't go into any detail. I don't know where I could have seen it,
alas...

	Noel



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