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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Well, thank you both (Moritz and
Reinhard). I suppose I am now a little wiser (well, perhaps just
a little better informed) but my understanding stops here (from
Wikipedia):<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">The glob command, short for <i>global</i>,
originates in the earliest versions of Bell Labs' <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>.<sup
id="cite_ref-man7Unix1_1-0" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)#cite_note-man7Unix1-1">[1]</a></sup>
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OK, it is "short for <i>global</i>", but where does "global" come
into it ? There is no further mention of the word "global" in the
Wikipedia definition, so it is not at all clear to me why a syntax
for specifying sets of filenames might be called "global" or a
contraction thereof ...<br>
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** Phil.<br>
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