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* [TUHS] Origins of globbing
@ 2020-10-06  9:53 Tyler Adams
  2020-10-06 15:17 ` John Cowan
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From: Tyler Adams @ 2020-10-06  9:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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How did globbing come about in unix?

Related, as regexes were already well known because of qed/ed, why wasn't a
subset of regular expressions used instead?

 Tyler

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* Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
@ 2020-10-06 15:44 Noel Chiappa
  2020-10-06 23:11 ` George Michaelson
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From: Noel Chiappa @ 2020-10-06 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc

    > From: John Cowan

    > Unfortunately, glob never got its own man page

Errr:

  https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/man/man8/glob.8

Not the most comprehensive document, but that plus the source would be
complete.

	Noel


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