GNU bug report logs - #63030
Minor innacuracy on --exclude documentation?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 63030-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 63030-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63030: correction
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:05:31 -0700

tags 63030 notabug
done

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On second thought, I think the documentation is fine. I just misread it. It
> has two sentences: "Skip any COMMAND-LINE file with..." and "When searching
> recursively, skip any SUBFILE whose...". So both cases are considered and
> it doesn't imply that --exclude acts on command line files only.

Thanks for the follow-up.
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