GNU bug report logs - #27730
--exclude-dir does ignore subdirectory

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Jiří Kozlovský <mail <at> jkozlovsky.cz>

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:05:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jiří Kozlovský <mail <at> jkozlovsky.cz>, 27730 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27730: --exclude-dir does ignore subdirectory
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:03:03 -0700

This does not appear to be a bug, in that grep is operating as documented. When 
searching recursively, --exclude-dir=GLOB will "skip any subdirectory whose base 
name matches GLOB. Ignore any redundant trailing slashes in GLOB." In your case, 
GLOB contains a non-redundant trailing slash, and such a pattern cannot match 
any base name.

To get the behavior that you want, you can use a fancier tool like 'find'.
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