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    There is a tag for "globstar" ?? :) Commented Mar 15, 2021 at 12:41
  • I just created it, @AdminBee. It seemed useful since there are various **-specific questions that can be asked. Do you think it isn't helpful? Commented Mar 15, 2021 at 12:45
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    Possibly related: unix.stackexchange.com/a/171347/237982 Commented Mar 15, 2021 at 12:55
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    globstar is the (very weirdly named) option David Korn picked for enabling the recursive-globbing feature it copied from zsh over 10 years later, and bash eventually copied as well another decade later. Several shells have added zsh-style recursive-globbing support, not all with that misnamed globstar option. Can we make the tag recursive-glob instead (and maybe a globstar alias to it for the ksh93/bash/tcsh users?). See also The result of ls * , ls ** and ls *** Commented Mar 15, 2021 at 14:06
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    @jrw32982 no, that isn't what I mean. I know it generates all file names first, my question was whether it also had a mechanism (such as writing partial file lists to temp files) to avoid running out of memory. Commented Mar 17, 2021 at 19:42