Re: bugs in GNU grep for DOS/Win

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Eric Pement wrote:

> I'm using GNU grep v2.4 and v2.4.2, compiled for MS-DOS/Windows. My 
> platform is Win95 OSR2 (FAT32 file system). I've tried both the DJGPP 
> compilation and the CYGWIN compilation. Neither one of these gives me 
> directory recursion. I.e., they will not search down the directory 
> tree for files in subdirectories. I'm typing:
> 
>      grep -r "anything" *.*
>      grep --recursive "anything" *.*
> 
> Can anyone else confirm this behavior or explain what may be wrong?

The problem is that you used "*.*", instead of just "*".  The former will 
search only in subdirectories whose names have extensions, and I'm 
guessing that this is not what you wanted.  "*" will catch all files and 
directories, with or without extensions.

In other words, the wildcards used by Grep are Unix style, not DOS style.