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bug#37212: Incorrect --exclude description with 'grep --help'
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Duncan Moore |
Subject: |
bug#37212: Incorrect --exclude description with 'grep --help' |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:25:54 +0100 |
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'grep --help' incorrectly states that the --exclude option operates on
directories. Here's the suggested change to the help text:
- --exclude=GLOB skip files and directories matching GLOB
+ --exclude=GLOB skip files matching GLOB
It might also be worthwhile changing 'that match' to 'matching' in these
2 options to give consistent phrasing across the 4 include/exclude
options, to make it a bit easier for the user to compare them:
- --include=GLOB search only files that match GLOB (a file
pattern)
+ --include=GLOB search only files matching GLOB (a file
pattern)
- --exclude-dir=GLOB skip directories that match GLOB
+ --exclude-dir=GLOB skip directories matching GLOB
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