From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:55:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob' Message-ID: <20170707165546.D887418C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > 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