8 Jul
2017
8 Jul
'17
5 a.m.
From GLOB.MAC, TOPS-10 circa 1988 (not sure what version that is):
TITLE GLOB -- GLOBAL CROSS-REFERENCE DIRECTORY LISTING
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/cgi-bin/searchbyname?name=glob.mac
Earliest version in that archive, 7-19-1975 but there are copyright
dates going back to 1968
;COPYRIGHT 1968,1969,1970,1971,1972, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP., MAYNARD, MASS.
On 7/7/2017 3:51 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
That's the way I remember it, too--short for
'global expression'.
TOPS-10 also had a glob command. That possibly predates the UNIX
glob.
-Paul W.
On 7/7/17, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
> This is matches my memory/was the way I learned it - ie glob was just short
> for "global" (expression).
>
> Steve / Doug any memories?
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> > From: Ron Minnich
>>
>> > Why was it called glob? I always wondered.
>>
>> Something about global expressions.
>>
>> I recall reading about this somewhere; I tried looking in the man page:
>>
>> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/glob.7
>>
>> but it didn't go into any detail. I don't know where I could have seen
>> it,
>> alas...
>>
>> Noel
>>