9 Jul
2017
9 Jul
'17
7:12 p.m.
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.
On 7/9/2017 8:26 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I believe the simple * was borrowed from somewhere
else. If the g command
had been the driving model, glob would probably have had ? and ?*, not
? and *. (It couldn't use ed's . because . was ubiquitous in file names.)