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On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:18:38AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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".

I wrote the same thing and strangely enough, I also used = as a * replacement.
>From 1987 folks:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/move.shar