bug#58134: grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star doesn't seem to work

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/27/22 16:19, Alex Benoit via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
> However, this worked:
> grep -rl --include="*.xml" foo .
>
> Is the double star supported on Windows?

Yes and no. It's a POSIX glob, which means "**" is equivalent to "*", 
and that's what's supported. Whether it's MS-Windows shouldn't matter.


> What is the proper way to do it?

Looks like you found it already.