[TUHS] Origins of globbing
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Thu Oct 8 12:35:31 AEST 2020
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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".
Oops - my mistake. This from the source:
# Brian Coogan 06 Jan 87
# Hewlett-Packard Australian Software Operation
Posted to aus.sources with no restrictions on its use, so I'm guessing
that it's PD.
-- Dave
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