[debbugs-tracker] bug#21026: closed (--exclude-dir matches search dir)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: --exclude-dir matches search dir Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:47:37 -0400

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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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#21027: --exclude-dir matches search dir Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:35:19 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0

Aron Griffis wrote:

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.

Thanks for reporting that.  I installed the attached patch.

0001-grep-fix-bug-with-exclude-dir-and-command-line.patch
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