.SH NAME
glob \- Globbing pathnames
.SH DESCRIPTION
-Long ago, in Unix V6, there was a program
+Long ago, in UNIX V6, there was a program
.I /etc/glob
that would expand wildcard patterns.
-Soon afterwards this became a shell built-in.
+Soon afterward this became a shell built-in.
These days there is also a library routine
.BR glob (3)
archive all your files; \fItar\ c\ .\fP is better.)
.SS "Empty Lists"
The nice and simple rule given above: "expand a wildcard pattern
-into the list of matching pathnames" was the original Unix
+into the list of matching pathnames" was the original UNIX
definition.
It allowed one to have patterns that expand into
an empty list, as in
Of course ranges were originally meant to be ASCII ranges,
so that "\fI[\ \-%]\fP" stands for "\fI[\ !"#$%]\fP" and "\fI[a\-z]\fP" stands
for "any lowercase letter".
-Some Unix implementations generalized this so that a range X\-Y
+Some UNIX implementations generalized this so that a range X\-Y
stands for the set of characters with code between the codes for
X and for Y.
However, this requires the user to know the
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