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Use both --include and --exclude at the same time

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From: "Paul Jackson" <pj <at> usa.net>
To: 45432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45432: Use both --include and --exclude at the same time
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:51:43 -0600

Being an old school geek, I recommend using the "find" command,
perhaps piped to "xargs grep", to control which files to grep.

The find command has a more general syntax for logically choosing
files, by any property of name, path or stat fields, with possible nested
and, or and not predicates, as needed.

However ... I learned how to use find, xargs and grep long before grep
had any such options as --include and --exclude, so I should probably
be ignored as not contributing to the current discussion.

Carry on ... <chuckle>.

P.S. -- Best use "find -print0" and "xargs -0", in order to avoid some
ancient and regrettable nasty irregularities in how xargs otherwise
handles embedded spaces and unbalanced quotation marks in the
input stream.

See my xargs wrapper for a convenient workaround for this nastiness:
http://thepythoniccow.us/x.c.txt

-- 
                Paul Jackson
                pj <at> usa.net

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