I see, this is not very easy to do on the Windows side of things, so grep has a very basic pattern matching capability for files. Thanks for the help, I'll find something that works. Was just wondering if I missed anything.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 10:42 AM To: Alex Benoit <alexandre.ben...@microsoft.com> Cc: 58134-d...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: bug#58134: grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star doesn't seem to work [You don't often get email from egg...@cs.ucla.edu. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] On 9/28/22 10:29, Alex Benoit wrote: > For instance, if I run the grep command from /, and I have the files: > /a/b/folder/file.xml > /a/b/file2.xml > /a/folder/file3.xml > /folder/file4.xml > > I want to match the file.xml, file3.xml and file4.xml, but not file2.xml, > because it is not under a folder named "folder". For that, you should use 'find' as a front end for 'grep'. It's the usual software tools philosophy.
