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
