[Novalug] bash commands

[Richard Rognlie]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:07:00PM -0500, Nino Pereira wrote:
> Listers,
> 
> I have seen this 'glob' business many times, and never knew
> what was meant.
> 
> >I've seen "glob" break with as little as a 100 files on older systems.
> 
> what is it? Googling for 'glob' gives a lot of unixy hits that are
> hard to follow (for me), and also this one:
> 
> The Glob possesses Superhuman Class 100 strength,

Glob is the term for converting the command line you enter into the
command line that the command actually gets.

things like 

        expanding *.f into the list of filenames that match (unless none
        match, then "*.f" is passed in.

        also [a-x], ?, etc. etc.

it might also apply to syntax like  {a,b,c}{1,2,3}f (which
expands to  a1f a2f 3f b1f b2f b3f c1f c2f c3f



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