In grep 2.22, --exclude no longer works in some cases: $ cd /usr/share/doc/grep $ grep e --exclude README README
is OK, but not: $ grep e --exclude README /usr/share/doc/grep/README Copyright (C) 1992, 1997-2002, 2004-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [...] This breaks at least one of my scripts, where --exclude is used to exclude filenames generated with globbing. After reverting to grep 2.21, this problem disappeared. My Debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807641 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
