Wildcards in vera++

Question

I feel really really dumb but how do I use wildcards with vera++? I would think I could do:

vera++ --root "C:\Program Files (x86)\vera++\lib\vera++" -R L001 *.cpp

But I get:

error: cannot open source file *.cpp
while executing
"GetAllLines $f"
...

Thanks, Daniel Dekkers

Expanding wildcards is a shell feature not one of the called program. — πάντα ῥεῖ, Nov 14 '14 at 17:28
@πάνταῥεῖ - In Windows, wildcard expansion is the responsibility of the called program. See, e.g., [here](http://superuser.com/q/460598/4160). — Josh Kelley, Nov 14 '14 at 17:29
@JoshKelley I was afraid so. Then the OP should try to run the program in e.g. MinGw shell. — πάντα ῥεῖ, Nov 14 '14 at 17:30
Ok, so something like `for %%f in (*.cpp) do ( vera++ --root "C:\Program Files (x86)\vera++\lib\vera++" %%~nf.cpp -R L001 )` in a windows batch file. — Daniel Dekkers, Nov 14 '14 at 18:13
@DanielDekkers: If you have come up with a working solution, you should post it as an answer. You can even select it as "the" answer, if you'd like. It might help people in the future. — indiv, Nov 14 '14 at 19:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

To summarize the comments:

It would appear that Vera++ does not support this. (On Windows, handling wildcards is the responsibility of individual programs; on other platforms, it's handled by the shell. If Vera++ is primarily developed by non-Windows users, that may explain the oversight.)
You're not the first person to run into this.
There are several workarounds: pass - as a filename and pipe in a list of files on stdin, or use a Makefile or similar script or tool runner, or use PowerShell or a for loop, or use another shell (like MinGW or Cygwin).

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