grep(1) now (I'm reading it on Jaunty although I suspect it was fixed
earlier) describes the --include/--exclude options as taking a GLOB;
"glob" is the usual jargon name for shell wildcards, but it does clarify
the jargon as well. It also seems to have fixed the misleading "recurse"
text:
--exclude=GLOB
Skip files whose base name matches GLOB (using wildcard
matching). A file-name glob can use *, ?, and [...] as
wildcards, and \ to quote a wildcard or backslash
character literally.
--exclude-from=FILE
Skip files whose base name matches any of the file-name
globs read from FILE (using wildcard matching as
described under --exclude).
--exclude-dir=DIR
Exclude directories matching the pattern DIR from
recursive searches.
[...]
--include=GLOB
Search only files whose base name matches GLOB (using
wildcard matching as described under --exclude).
** Changed in: grep (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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grep(1) man page confuses the 2 kinds of PATTERN used
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/23023
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