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--- Comment #2 from Bucky Kid <[email protected]>  2011-01-18 14:32:04 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> 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
> 

OK thanks for explanation.
Anyway is there a way to make pcregrep under Windows to populate wildcards in
file names?
I miss this functionality for pcregrep quite much and gcc is not my preferred
compiler...


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