Origin
The command interpreters of the early versions of Unix (1st through 6th Editions, 1969–75) did not expand wildcard characters in file path arguments to a command; a separate program, /etc/glob, performed the expansion and supplied the expanded list of file paths to the command for execution.
glob is a Unix library function that expands file names using a pattern-matching notation reminiscent of regular expression syntax but without the expressive power of true regular expressions.
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