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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>glob</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="glitch.html" title="glitch"/><link rel="next" href="glork.html" title="glork"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">glob</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glitch.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="glork.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="glob"/><dt xmlns="" id="glob"><b>glob</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/glob/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/glohb/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.,n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix; common] To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or
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the act of so doing (the action is also called <span class="firstterm">globbing</span>). The Unix conventions for filename
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wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some
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of them in written English, especially in email or news on technical
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topics. Those commonly encountered include the following:</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>*</td><td>wildcard for any string (see also <a href="../U/UN-asterisk-X.html"><i class="glossterm">UN*X</i></a>)
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</td></tr><tr><td>?</td><td>wildcard for any single character (generally read this way only at the
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beginning or in the middle of a word)
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</td></tr><tr><td>[]</td><td>delimits a wildcard matching any of the enclosed characters
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</td></tr><tr><td>{}</td><td>alternation of comma-separated alternatives; thus, ‘foo{baz,qux}’
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would be read as ‘foobaz’ or ‘fooqux’</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Some examples: “<span class="quote">He said his name was [KC]arl</span>” (expresses
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ambiguity). “<span class="quote">I don't read talk.politics.*</span>” (any of the
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talk.politics subgroups on <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>). Other examples
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are given under the entry for <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>. Note that glob
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patterns are similar, but not identical, to those used in
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<a href="../R/regexp.html"><i class="glossterm">regexp</i></a>s.</p><p>Historical note: The jargon usage derives from <b class="command">glob</b>, the name of a subprogram that expanded
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wildcards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="glitch.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="glork.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">glitch<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>glork</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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