Synopsis: grep --exclude does not check directories ? State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: vs State-Changed-When: Fri Apr 8 14:41:04 GMT 2005 State-Changed-Why: Feature works as advertised: It's for skipping files, not directories as Chris correctly points out. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=78504