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Globbing
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   The archetypal use of wildcards is for matching against the files in
a directory, and making a list of all the matches.  This is called
"globbing".

   You could do this using `fnmatch', by reading the directory entries
one by one and testing each one with `fnmatch'.  But that would be slow
(and complex, since you would have to handle subdirectories by hand).

   The library provides a function `glob' to make this particular use
of wildcards convenient.  `glob' and the other symbols in this section
are declared in `glob.h'.

Calling Glob

Basic use of `glob'.

Flags for Globbing

Flags that enable various options in `glob'.

More Flags for Globbing

GNU specific extensions to `glob'.