RE: grep -r --exclude problem

[Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3]

> From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:address@hidden 
> * Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 
> 10:52:44AM CEST:> > I would like to do a grep -r, but exclude all
files with 
> > extensions .bak, .~, .sav.
> 
> Try --exclude='*.bak' --exclude='*.~' --exclude='*.sav'.

> From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:address@hidden 
> Use multiple --exclude options.

Thank you, this works!

But I think it would be a good idea if grep would include bash-style,
{...}-globbing,
into its include/exclude options, because denoting all the pattern
combination 
via multiple --exclude soon gets tiresome. Rewriting a pattern such as

  --exclude='{fh,px,gz}_*.{h,cc,cpp}'

into multiple excludes would already require 9 --exclude options -
really a nightmare!

Ronald