[TUHS] Origins of globbing

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, George Michaelson wrote:

> Possibly wrongly, I judge glob by things like how simple it is, to use
> it doing "rename *.foo to *.bar" or "find filenames with spaces in
> them, and rename to be - separated"

John "Iron bar" Mackin (may he rest in peace) wrote a shell script "mved" 
that implemented PIP-like globs along the lines of "mved =.foo =.bar".  I 
still have it somewhere, but it probably needs some work on it now; it was 
really handy for things like "mved =.c =c.old".

-- Dave