I knew glob was short for global, but I've never been clear on how the word global applies here. Perhaps it was something like "apply this command globally to a

I knew glob was short for global, but I've never been clear on how the word global applies here. Perhaps it was something like "apply this command globally to all matching files"? As for the terse abbreviations common Unix commands, recall that much of the early work on Unix was done on very slow teletype devices such as the ASR 33. At 110 baud, brevity is a virtue.