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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Arthur Reutenauer wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:42:11PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> OK, it is "short for global", but where does "global" come into it ?
There is no further mention of the word "global" in the Wikipedia
definition
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Your incurious curiosity never ceases to amaze me. It doesn’t take
long to find more information, for example
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/shell-scripting-expert/9781118166321/c04-anchor-1.xhtml">https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/shell-scripting-expert/9781118166321/c04-anchor-1.xhtml</a>
that states that “global” refers to the fact that /etc/glob was supposed
to search all the directories in $PATH, as opposed to /bin only, which
was its original, buggy behaviour.
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It "doesn’t take long to find more information", Arthur, if one has
some idea where to look. A publication entitled "Shell scripting
expert" is hardly likely to feature highly on my list of places to
consult, whereas a Wikipedia article that defines "glob" in terms of
"global" might reasonably be expected to go on to explain <i>why </i>"glob"
is derived from "global" ...<br>
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** Phil.<br>
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