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@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