[TUHS] origin of the name 'glob'

[ron minnich]

by the way ... I just put a patch into a repo and my documentation said
'the name is in glob format' and got dinged by some reviewers: "what is
glob"?

I blame our education system :-)

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:38 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> 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 at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>     > 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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