From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 07:29:07 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob' In-Reply-To: References: <201707091226.v69CQuvp031800@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: On Sun, 9 Jul 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: > TOPS-10 came out as "MONITOR" in 1967, and while I'm not sure it started > out with * and ?, it definitely had it early on. > > Not saying TOPS-10 was the originator of *, but it was certainly around > in at least one other operating system. I vaguely remember something like "PIP *.TXT *.OLD" to rename files (the "*" was interpreted by the command itself, not the interpreter). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."