[debbugs-tracker] bug#17481: closed (Mini bug with option --exclude-dir)

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regarding Mini bug with option --exclude-dir
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> Re: Mini bug with option --exclude-dir
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> Mon, 12 May 2014 13:46:31 -0700
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0
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> Severity: minor
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> Thanks for the bug report.  Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to 
> get to this before the next grep release, but is a reasonable thing to 
> do so I'll resend this to bug-grep so that it gets a proper bug report 
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> On 06/06/2013 08:48 AM, Khaled Ziyaeen wrote:
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> > I would like to report a bug in the implementation of the --exclude-dir
> > option in GNU grep 2.10 version.
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> > If running > grep --exclude-dir "/hdd1/lib/udev/devices/" -r eads /hdd1
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> > It will still examine /hdd1/lib/udev/devices.
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> > However, if running > grep --exclude-dir "/hdd1/lib/udev/devices" -r eads
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> > Then, that folder I wanted to include is actually ignored. I think that the
> > extra slash at the end, while unnecessary, must not break down the
> > ---exclude-dir feature.
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> > Happy to help fix the bug!
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> > Best,
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> > Khaled.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: Mini bug with option --exclude-dir Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 14:11:22 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 I pushed the attached patch to fix this. Thanks again for reporting the problem.

0001-grep-exclude-dir-FOO-now-ignores-the-trailing-slash.patch
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