Excluding paths containing a specific folder

[Agathe Bernier]

Hello everyone,

I'm using cppcheck with inline commands to check MISRA2012 rules, and I want to exclude every .c files holding the "tests" folder in their path. E.g:

foo/bar/tests/baz/file.c

These files were not designed to be analysed, so they are flooding my analysis results with many errors.

I'm trying to use the option --suppressions-list, and my suppressions.txt file looks like this:

*:foo/**/tests/**

But cppcheck is giving me a glob error

cppcheck: error: Failed to add suppression. Invalid glob pattern 'foo/**/tests/**'

I've tried many combinations of simple and double *, with or without "*.c" at the end, but without success.

If you have any ideas, I'll be glad to read it !

Thanks a lot

[Agathe Bernier]

Turns out this suppressions.txt matches my needs:

*:foo/*/tests/*

The * character seems to be recursive inside subfolders.

Sorry for the post, hope it helps someone !