@StephenKitt Yes, the math **concept** of "regular expressions" is [from 1951 (Klenee)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#History) but note that they were called "regular events". However the practical aplication took some years to spread to the computer world.
[With reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)) *The glob command, short for global, originates in the earliest versions of Bell Labs' Unix.*
[Then](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)#Unix-like) *Extended Globbing (extglob): allows other pattern matching operators to be used to match …