From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 32013 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2020 00:19:39 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Oct 2020 00:19:39 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 171DE9CFBA; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:19:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90099CF6D; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:18:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id CEDC19CF6D; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:18:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from viclamta29p.bpe.bigpond.com (viclamta29p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.93]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74C469CF36 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:18:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.26.4]) by viclafep29p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20201008001840.GNGI6510.viclafep29p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:18:40 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedujedrgeejgdefvdcutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfupfevtfgpvffgnffuvffttedpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecugedttdenucenucfjughrpeffhffvufgjkfhffgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeekieetjeeuuefhfeeguedvudeifeevudfgvedtffekhfffjeekhfdutdetheethfenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegrnhgvuhhrihhnrdhhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrghdpihhnvghtpeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefpdhmrghilhhfrhhomhepoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqedprhgtphhtthhopeeothhuhhhssehtuhhhshdrohhrgheq X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.420) id 5F73C495017C19BD for tuhs@tuhs.org; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:18:39 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 0980IddV015262 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:18:39 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 0980Idmq015259 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:18:39 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:18:38 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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". -- Dave