Subject: Re: bug#58134: grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star doesn't seem to work
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Alex Benoit <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:07:27 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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.