[debbugs-tracker] bug#26648: closed (What's wrong w/this grep?)

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> What's wrong w/this grep?
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> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:45:14 -0700
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> >  /usr/bin/grep --color=auto -I -D skip -d skip -exclude-from=EX -P -r xrm
> /usr/bin/grep: xrm: No such file or directory
> >  /usr/bin/grep --version
> /usr/bin/grep (GNU grep) 2.21.31-adf9
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> How did 'xrm' become a file name? 
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> It happened after I added the "-exclude-from=EX -P -r"
> to an alias... but it happens when I use
> the binary directly (i.e. no alias).
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> I was expecting 'xrm' to be a pattern that was searched
> for in the files starting at the current directory.
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> "New" to me -- use of the -exclude-from option.
> Of note: EX contains:
> *.orig
> *.1
> *.1.in
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> Ideas?  Doesn't seem like correct action...
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> L. A. Walsh wrote:
> > >  /usr/bin/grep --color=auto -I -D skip -d skip -exclude-from=EX -P -r xrm
> > /usr/bin/grep: xrm: No such file or directory
> > >  /usr/bin/grep --version
> > /usr/bin/grep (GNU grep) 2.21.31-adf9
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> > How did 'xrm' become a file name?
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> Because you omitted a "-" before "-exclude", and that caused your pattern to be 
> 'xclude-from=EX'.
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