Directory separators not normalised on Windows

[mrmonday]

Using either cmd or git bash on windows:

$ rg --version
ripgrep 0.6.0
-AVX -SIMD

$ find .
.
./a
./a/c
./a/c/b
$ cat a/c/b
aaaa
bbbb
cccc

$ rg aa a/
a/c\b
1:aaaa

Here the output mixed / and \ as directory separators - they should be normalised for consistency.

[BurntSushi]

This looks like a duplicate of #275. In particular, what should the paths be normalized to? Does --path-separator fix this issue for you?

[mrmonday]

That works, I'll set up an alias.

I thought it might be good to normalise by default, so I did a little investigation:

• grep in git bash (find does similarly):

  $ grep -r aa 'a\'
  a\/c/b:aaaa
  $ grep -r aa 'a/'
  a/c/b:aaaa
  

• findstr in cmd: I couldn't find a way to make it recurse, but it prints exactly as passed
• dir in cmd: This always normalises to \
• Get-ChildItem a/ -Recurse in powershell normalises to \

I'm no expert in Window's command line utilities, but my minor investigation reveals quite a mixed bag of results - there's no definitive "ripgrep should do this because it's what everything else does".

I'll close this, since --path-separator is a sufficient workaround. Thanks.