The PPT glob Command

This is the home page for the Perl Power Tools implementation of the standard glob command. Its mission is life is mostly as a band-aide for broken systems that don't have proper globbing built in to them.

Current Perl implementations are:

Baseline documentation: Extremely early versions of Unix did have an /etc/glob program, but that bug was fixed long ago. I suggest that the otherwise deplorable csh (or tcsh) be followed for behaviour. One might consider a -t flag to support returning textfiles only.