Thanks Paul, looks like the syntax reference I was using was not the right one.
What I'm really trying to do is a bit more complex and I cannot figure out if it's just not a supported feature of grep or if I'm not able to come up with the right syntax for it. I am trying to make an include filter which will match any xml file that is in a folder with a specific name, no matter how deep that folder is. 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". The command I would imagine would look something like: grep -l --include="*/folder/*.xml" pattern . I tried a couple different ways to write this and nothing worked, I wonder if grep just does not support this feature. Note that I'm using the grep for Windows, so I don't have the typical linux tools or shell expansion tricks I can use, I'm trying to do this all in grep. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 10:07 AM To: Alex Benoit <alexandre.ben...@microsoft.com> Cc: 58134-d...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: bug#58134: grep for windows Include GLOB pattern with double star doesn't seem to work 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.
