Inconsistent usage of --exclude option

[k0pernikus]

Bug Report

• TSLint version: 3.15.1
• TypeScript version: 1.8.10
• Running TSLint via: (please choose one) CLI

TypeScript code being linted

with tslint.json configuration:

{
    "extends": "tslint-config-ms-recommended"
}

Usage of exclude:

Run

• tslint src/**/*.ts --exclude src/**/*.d.ts
• .tslint src/**/*.ts --exclude "src/**/*.d.ts"
• .tslint src/**/*.ts --exclude=src/**/*.d.ts

Expected behavior

All three should either ouput only the *.ts and ignore *.d.ts files or throw an error of faulty usage.

Actual behavior

The usage of --exclude src/**/*.d.ts prints *.d.ts lints:

tslint src/**/*.ts --exclude src/**/*.d.ts | grep -m 1 highland.d.ts
src/interfaces/highland.d.ts[81, 31]:    Type declaration of 'any' is forbidden

Only the two other work as expected.

[FrozenPandaz]

I'm not able to exclude any files on version 4.0.2 with any of those configurations... Did something break?

Edit: Nevermind, i needed to do **/src for some reason its grepping absolute paths?

[adidahiya]

the globs in tslint src/**/*.ts --exclude src/**/*.d.ts are expanded by your shell, not the TSLint CLI. not much we can do there. see related discussions #692, #827, etc.

[ghost]

But what about in your tslint.json? Nothing ever seems to be excluded when listed there.

[adidahiya]

@KSuttle-cng exclude is not yet supported in tslint.json, that will be in v5.8 with #2409.

Note that you can send strings to --exclude and they will be expanded by node glob: --exclude 'src/**/*.d.ts'.