GLOB

GLOB

NAME DESCRIPTION WILDCARD MATCHING PATHNAMES EMPTY LISTS NOTES SEE ALSO

NAME

glob - Globbing pathnames

DESCRIPTION

Long ago, in Unix V6, there was a program /etc/glob that would expand wildcard patterns. Soon afterwards this became a shell built-in.

These days there is also a library routine glob(3) that will perform this function for a user program.

The rules are as follows (POSIX 1003.2, 3.13).

WILDCARD MATCHING

A string is a wildcard pattern if it contains one of the characters `?', `*' or `[['. Globbing is the operation that expands a wildcard pattern into the list of pathnames matching the pattern. Matching is defined by:

A `?' (not between brackets) matches any single character.

A `*' (not between brackets) matches any string, including the empty string.

Character classes

An expression `[...?' where the first character after the leading `

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