[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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