[Mingw-users] Quoted wildcards in arguments to MinGW programs and bug 3482704

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

Are there any realistic plans to have a solution to bug #3482704 any
time soon?  I'm asking about the second issue in that bug, namely that
quoted wildcards are globbed by latest MSVCRT versions, disregarding
the quotes.

As more and more people switch to Windows 7 and later versions, more
and more MinGW users will hit subtle bugs related to this, when
invoking MinGW programs from Windows shells.  Consider, for example,

     fgrep -R foobar . --include="*.c"
or
     ls foo --ignore="*.exe"
or
     diff foo bar -I "something.*"
or
     diff -r dir1 dir2 -x "*.o"
or
     locate -b "foo*.doc"

Etc., etc.  These are commands I use every day, and I'm sure others do