globbing

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Within a shell, the act of performing filename substitution We say that a shell globs when it replaces a pattern in a command by all the file names that match the pattern See also filename substitution, wildcard

A UNIX term for the shell's process of wildcard file name expansion to develop a list of literal file names that the shell then passes to a command The C shell permits the user to disable globbing by default; the Bourne, Korn, and POSIX shells require the user to quote or escape metacharacters in file names if globbing is not desired

Globbing refers to the expansion of shell metacharacters to complete file names Shell globbing metacharacters are '*' and '?', which expands to a sequence of zero or more characters and exactly one character respectively

You can create a ZCatalog with globbing turned on, you can later on search the ZCatalog using wildcards (* etc ) Globbing also enables partial word searches in that ZCatalog