Re: [bug-grep] Re: Grep for Windows bug report

[Julian Foad]

Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Bourne style shells under Unix don't do this.  Maybe Windows, but
> not Unix.  E.g.,

The email implied Windows was being used:

>>El-Shamaa, Khaled (ICARDA) wrote:
>>>At first I would like to thanks you for your effort in making great grep
>>>tool available in windows OS, [...]

>         $ touch a b
>         $ ls * > c
>         $ cat c
>         a
>         b

On Windows, it is different: the wildcard is not expanded by the shell but 
after the application starts, by which time the file "c" exists.

There is a very similar case in which a wildcard is impled but not specified on 
the command line; this will behave the same on both platforms:

$ touch a b
$ ls > c
$ cat c
a
b
c


- Julian