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bug #14634: --exclude-from does not interpolate ~ as the home directory

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 25 Sep 2005 04:31:52 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 25 Sep 2005 10:29:39 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Grep does not expand "~" when it appears in a filename pattern read from the file.  That is as designed: a filename pattern can contain (only) "*", "?" and "[...]" as wildcards, like in the POSIX.2 C function "fnmatch()".

On the command line, the shell expands "~" as well as "$", "{a,b}", and several other special operators that can be very useful for selecting files but are not exactly filename pattern wildcards.  It is not right for Grep to duplicate this functionality.  If you need more flexibility in selecting which files to search, use another method such as the "find" program which is dedicated to that purpose.

As for "--exclude-from" being undocumented except in the built-in help, yes, that is a bug.  I'll fix it.

Therefore I am closing this bug report.  If you need to discuss it further, please discuss it on the mailing list: <bug-grep@gnu.org>.  Thanks.

Julian Foad <julianfoad>
Sun 25 Sep 2005 04:31:52 AM UTC, original submission:  

Also it is mentioned in no docs but --help.

Using 2.5.1 from Debian testing.

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