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From: Tyler Adams <coppero1237@gmail.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:53:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEuQd1ArwELtQH=+KAoQ4CAjTjFg2Dvu5ca1p8mttsPZwO3XFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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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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             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-06  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-06  9:53 Tyler Adams [this message]
2020-10-06 15:17 ` John Cowan
2020-10-07  2:25   ` Random832
2020-10-07  2:58     ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07  9:22       ` arnold
2020-10-07  9:45         ` Michael Kjörling
2020-10-08  3:45           ` John Cowan
2020-10-09 18:21             ` Random832
2020-10-08  0:18       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-08  0:33         ` Larry McVoy
2020-10-08  2:35         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-06 15:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 23:11 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-06 23:21   ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07  0:23     ` Warner Losh
2020-10-07  0:32       ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07  0:33         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07  3:14   ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 21:29     ` Greg A. Woods

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