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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58134: closed (grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with
 double star doesn't seem to work)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:08:02 +0000

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From: Alex Benoit <Alexandre.Benoit <at> microsoft.com>
To: "bug-grep <at> gnu.org" <bug-grep <at> gnu.org>
Subject: grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star doesn't seem
 to work
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:19:42 +0000

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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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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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