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glob
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/glob/ , not , /glohb/ , v.,n. [Unix; common] To expand special characters
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in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called
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globbing ). The Unix conventions for filename wildcarding have become
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sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some of them in written
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English, especially in email or news on technical topics. Those commonly
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encountered include the following: * wildcard for any string (see also UN*X
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) ? wildcard for any single character (generally read this way only at the
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beginning or in the middle of a word) [] delimits a wildcard matching any of
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the enclosed characters {} alternation of comma-separated alternatives;
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thus, foo{baz,qux} would be read as foobaz or fooqux Some examples: He said
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his name was [KC]arl (expresses ambiguity). I don't read talk.politics.*
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(any of the talk.politics subgroups on Usenet ). Other examples are given
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under the entry for X. Note that glob patterns are similar, but not
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identical, to those used in regexp s. Historical note: The jargon usage
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derives from glob , the name of a subprogram that expanded wildcards in
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archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell.
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