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grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star doesn't seem to work

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Message #10 received at 58134-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alex Benoit <Alexandre.Benoit <at> microsoft.com>
Cc: 58134-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58134: grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star
 doesn't seem to work
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:07:27 -0700

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.

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