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From: Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Globbing versus regular expressions
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 10:39:28 -0500
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On 7/21/2024 2:01 AM, Axel Reichert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> a colleague (new to command line wizardry) seemed puzzled by the
> existence of both globbing for file names (shell) and regular
> expressions for strings (many other command line tools).

<snip>
There's an IMO interesting Q&A about globs and regexps, including some 
history, at:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/136353/history-of-bash-globbing

Regards,

     Ed.