On 2015-12-11 19:31:46 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 12/11/2015 05:56 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >or --exclude, the description is clear: > > The description changed in grep 2.22, to match the 2.22 (also, > 2.6-and-earlier) behavior.
My quote was from the grep 2.22 description (grep 2.22-1 Debian package). It seems that this has changed later: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html which is different: Skip files whose name matches the pattern glob, using wildcard matching. When searching recursively, skip any subfile whose base name matches glob; the base name is the part after the last ‘/’. A pattern can use ‘*’, ‘?’, and ‘[’...‘]’ as wildcards, and \ to quote a wildcard or backslash character literally. The documentation is still ambiguous. For the "main case", is this the canonical name as returned by realpath? > As you say, the 2.22 behavior does not seem ideal. By doing a difference for subfiles of a recursive search, this is even worse! -- 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)
