Usage of Cygwin GNU grep missing files when using wild cards.

Apparently the command grep -i PATN *.* will scan files and indicate special results for .EXE files,
and it will locate files of extension .BAT with the wildcard usage, but when I subset the search
by using grep -i PATN *.BAT to look for patn in just batch text files, it finds no matches.
By copying files (copy *.bat *.qqq) and making new copies, I can then use
grep -i PATN *.qqq and get the expected results.

It appears to treat the .BAT text file contents specially.
Is there a way around this ?




Steven Bender
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