Globbing with MinGW on Windows
- by Neil Butterworth
I have an application built with the MinGW C++ compiler that works something like grep - acommand looks something like this:
myapp -e '.*' *.txt
where the thing that comes after the -e switch is a regex, and the thing after that is file name pattern. It seems that MinGW automatically expands (globs in UNIX terms) the command line so my regex…