On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Bucky Kid wrote: > This is globbing problem of pcregrep occuring on Win32 builds: > > pcregrep "teststring" *.txt > > generates this error message > > pcregrep: Failed to open *.txt: Invalid argument > > version independent, tested with same command line on mingw32 build and file > globbing is working
There is no globbing within pcregrep. In Unix/Linux systems it relies on the shell to do that job. In other words, if the above command is run under (e.g.) the bash shell, what the program sees is a list of file names. It does not see "*.txt". The message you quote above shows that whatever shell you were using has just passed "*.txt" to pcregrep. I am not a Windows user, so I have no idea about any kind of globbing under Windows. Anybody else on this list care to answer? Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
