GNU bug report logs - #21026
--exclude-dir matches search dir

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Aron Griffis <aron <at> arongriffis.com>

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 21027

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Aron Griffis <aron <at> arongriffis.com>
To: 21026 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21026: --exclude-dir matches search dir
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:47:37 -0400

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This generates output:

$ grep -rl --exclude-dir=usr LINUX /usr/include

and this doesn't:

$ grep -rl --exclude-dir='usr*' LINUX /usr/include

This feels like a bug. My actual use-case is more like the following, but
the above seems like a more universal test case.

$ grep -rl --exclude-dir='.*' /home/aron/.virtualenvs/pp/src PATT

This surprised me by not generating any results. I had expected the
exclusion to only affect dirs within the given path, not match on the path
itself, but it seems to be aborting because '.*' matches '.virtualenvs'.
Is this a bug or just a bad assumption on my part?

$ grep --version
/usr/bin/grep (GNU grep) 2.21

Thanks,
Aron

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