glob

Glob may refer to:

• GLOB (youtube channel), a channel consisting of a molten ball burning through various items
• glob (programming), an instance of pattern matching behavior
• Glob (TV series), an Italian comedy series
• The Glob, a 1983 arcade game
• Glob (comics), multiple fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe
• Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
• The Boston Globe, a Boston newspaper
• Glob (visual system), millimeter areas in the extended V4 that process color
• Peter Glob, a Danish archaeologist
• Glob, one of the heads of the four-faced deity Grob Gob Glob Grod from Adventure Time

In computer programming, in particular in a Unix-like environment, glob patterns specify sets of filenames with wildcard characters. For example, the Unix command mv *.txt textfiles/ moves (mv) all files with names ending in .txt from the current directory to the directory textfiles. Here, * is a wildcard standing for "any string of characters" and *.txt is a glob pattern. The other common wildcard is the question mark (?), which stands for one character.