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

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star doesn't seem to work Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:19:42 +0000

Hello,

 

I was using grep for Windows version 3.5.

 

I was trying to pattern match files.

 

At first, I thought I could put a regex as the file pattern in the command, but that didn’t seem to work.

 

Then I looked at the --include option.

 

I tried

 

grep -l --include=”**/*.xml” foo .

grep -l --include=”**\*.xml” foo .

grep -l --include=”**\\*.xml” foo .

 

Adding the recursive -r didn’t help either.

 

However, this worked:

grep -rl --include=”*.xml” foo .

 

Is the double star supported on Windows? What is the proper way to do it?

 

All the best,

 

Alex

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> On 9/27/22 16:19, Alex Benoit via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
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> > Is the double star supported on Windows?
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> 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.
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> > What is the proper way to do it?
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> Looks like you found it already.
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