>> But that has the same problem. Cygtools don't understand windows >> paths so barf when you say "grep c:\foo.txt" But the Windows shell >> only will only autocomplete Windows-style paths. >> >> I've found the gnuwin32 tools to work a little better on that front. >> > Wha??? > > The "grep" tool doesn't read the path. The *shell* interprets the path and > passes the text to the program. That's how all the gnu tools are able to > pipe their results from one tool to the other. > > Or at least, that's how I assume it works. >
No, that's how it works with the Bash shell and most Unix shells, but the Windows console doesn't do that stuff. It's up to each app to interpret and expand wildcards like *.txt. So the cygwin progs must be explicitly checking to see if they got a * from a stupid DOS console and doing the glob themselves. But the implementation is apparently imperfect since it doesn't work on full DOS paths with wildcards. --bb
