On second thought, I think the documentation is fine. I just misread it. It has two sentences: "Skip any COMMAND-LINE file with..." and "When searching recursively, skip any SUBFILE whose...". So both cases are considered and it doesn't imply that --exclude acts on command line files only.
- bug#63030: Minor innacuracy on --exclude documentation? Sebastian Carlos
- bug#63030: correction Sebastian Carlos
- bug#63030: correction Jim Meyering