Certainly.  But I think the specific meanings of "*" to mean "any number of any characters" and "?" to mean "any character" do not go back further than 1964. 

Multics had support for * and ?, but I don't know when that was added or if it was there from the beginning.  Multics filenames, unlike DEC ones, allow multiple dots, which are treated specially by these characters: neither ? nor * can match a dot, but ** can.  So perhaps they got into Unix from Multics after all.  Stratus VOS is another direct descendant of Multics, but I don't know if it has globs.

Windows avoids quotation by blocking any of < > " : | ? * from appearing in pathnames (/ and \ mean the same thing to the kernel, but not to the shell or to the GUI file picker).  In addition, non-disk device names cannot appear as part of a filename either before or after the dot: nul.c and c.nul, for example, are illegal because nul: is a device name, and you can use \dev\nul to reference the null device even though \dev does not exist.

I found the absence of set nullglob (which causes *.foo to expand to nothing if it matches no files) on Solaris 8 very irritating.  It's still not part of Posix sh, though bash has it.  I wrote some wrappers around cp and mv that looked for * and ? in the arguments (indicating no files) and removed those arguments; if no arguments were left after that, they exited with 0.  Thus "safecp *.bak ../backup" would silently succeed if there were no .bak files.

John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
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the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.  --Bilbo