From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 08:38:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170710123835.C104C18C0C2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Paul Winalski
> So when were REs first designed and implemented? I would imagine that
> they came about as a way to extend the old '*' and '?' wildcard syntax,
> but that is only a guess.
I would suspect in the context of editors, not command file-naming. Don't
have time to research it, though. Try checking CTSS, early Multics, etc.
Noel
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2017-07-10 12:38 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2017-07-09 21:55 Paul Winalski
2017-07-09 22:06 ` Steve Johnson
2017-07-09 22:08 ` ron minnich
2017-07-09 22:36 ` Bakul Shah
2017-07-09 23:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-07-09 23:43 ` Toby Thain
2017-07-10 13:47 ` arnold
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