Add support for excluding file globs (#1425)

Fixes: #1424

src/ansiblelint/runner.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import multiprocessing.pool
 import os
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, FrozenSet, Generator, List, Optional, Set, Union
 
 import ansiblelint.skip_utils
@@ -84,8 +85,12 @@ def is_excluded(self, file_path: str) -> bool:
         # Exclusions should be evaluated only using absolute paths in order
         # to work correctly.
         abs_path = os.path.abspath(file_path)
+        _file_path = Path(file_path)
 
-        return any(abs_path.startswith(path) for path in self.exclude_paths)
+        return any(
+            abs_path.startswith(path) or _file_path.match(path)
+            for path in self.exclude_paths
+        )
 
     def run(self) -> List[MatchError]:
         """Execute the linting process."""

test/TestRunner.py

@@ -69,6 +69,18 @@ def test_runner_exclude_paths(default_rules_collection) -> None:
     assert len(matches) == 0
 
 
+def test_runner_exclude_globs(default_rules_collection) -> None:
+    """Test that globs work."""
+    runner = Runner(
+        'examples/playbooks/example.yml',
+        rules=default_rules_collection,
+        exclude_paths=['**/example.yml'],
+    )
+
+    matches = runner.run()
+    assert len(matches) == 0
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     ('formatter_cls'),
     (