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Vinony

glob

noun

  1. a little globber
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɡlɑb/ / /ɡlɒb/

noun

Etymology: Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.

  1. A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.

verb

Etymology: Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.

  1. To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

    “In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.”