On 12 Aug 2023, at 21:57, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On 2023-08-12 00:50, moonhk wrote: >> I am using choco to install grep on Windows 10. > > As I don't know what choco is, I can't be of much help. I suggest writing to > the choco folks, whoever they are, as it's the MS-Windows port that is the > problem. Upstream maintainers like me don't know MS-Windows.
"Chocolatey" is a package manager (of sorts) for Windows, see <https://chocolatey.org/>. It looks like lots of packages available via this package manager are contributed by individual maintainers, which apparently do their own builds and upload the resulting binaries. In this case it is <https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/grep>, uploaded/maintained by a person called "xoviat". It is unclear how you should contact this person. In any case, on Windows command line utilities typically have to do their own wildcard expansion, but Microsoft provides a relatively simple way to do so: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-language/expanding-wildcard-arguments However, in most cases it is easier to use Cygwin or MinGW, which provide Unix-like shells and all the familiar tools, including a working grep! :-) -Dimitry
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