Would it be crazy for grep --exclude-dir=foo/bar to give a warning?
Since, as I understand it, any non-trailing / in the arg can never match
since the arg is matched against the basename.
This came up when I ran grep -r --exclude="t/*.dir", thinking it would
exclude all the test output director
On 2024-01-22 15:48, Karl Berry wrote:
Would it be crazy for grep --exclude-dir=foo/bar to give a warning?
Since, as I understand it, any non-trailing / in the arg can never match
since the arg is matched against the basename.
That's not quite true, as it can match command-line arguments. Fo
