diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index 9a468817..11270cd2 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ pre-commit:
 
 **Default: `false`**
 
-> **Note**
+> [!NOTE]
 >
 > Lefthook runs commands and scripts **sequentially** by default.
 
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ Run commands and scripts concurrently.
 
 **Default: `false`**
 
-> **Note**
+> [!NOTE]
 >
 > Lefthook will return an error if both `piped: true` and `parallel: true` are set.
 
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ pre-push:
       run: yarn test
 ```
 
-> **Note**
+> [!NOTE]
 >
 > If used with [`parallel`](#parallel) the output can be a mess, so please avoid setting both options to `true`.
 
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ pre-push:
 
 Simply run `bundle exec rubocop` on all files with `.rb` extension excluding `application.rb` and `routes.rb` files.
 
-> **Note**
+> [!NOTE]
 >
 > `--force-exclusion` will apply `Exclude` configuration setting of Rubocop.
 
@@ -798,7 +798,9 @@ pre-commit:
     rubocop:
       tags: backend style
       glob: "*.rb"
-      exclude: '(^|/)(application|routes)\.rb$'
+      exclude:
+        - config/application.rb
+        - config/routes.rb
       run: bundle exec rubocop --force-exclusion {all_files}
 ```
 
@@ -1259,17 +1261,21 @@ pre-commit:
 
 ### `exclude`
 
-You can provide a list of filenames or a regular expression to exclude some files from being passed to [`run`](#run) command.
+For the `exclude` option two variants are supported:
 
-If you pass a list of filenames, they must contain the full path of the file from the project root.
+- A list of globs to be excluded
+- A single regular expression (deprecated)
 
-The regular expression is matched against full paths to files in the repo,
-relative to the repo root, using `/` as the directory separator on all platforms.
-File paths do not begin with the separator or any other prefix.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+>
+> The regular expression is matched against full paths to files in the repo,
+> relative to the repo root, using `/` as the directory separator on all platforms.
+> File paths do not begin with the separator or any other prefix.
 
 **Example**
 
-Run Rubocop on staged files with `.rb` extension except for `application.rb`, `routes.rb`, and `rails_helper.rb` (wherever they are).
+Run Rubocop on staged files with `.rb` extension except for `application.rb`, `routes.rb`, `rails_helper.rb`, and all Ruby files in `config/initializers/`.
 
 ```yml
 # lefthook.yml
@@ -1278,11 +1284,15 @@ pre-commit:
   commands:
     lint:
       glob: "*.rb"
-      exclude: '(^|/)(application|routes|rails_helper)\.rb$'
+      exclude:
+        - config/routes.rb
+        - config/application.rb
+        - config/initializers/*.rb
+        - spec/rails_helper.rb
       run: bundle exec rubocop --force-exclusion {staged_files}
 ```
 
-The same example using a list of filenames.
+The same example using a regular expression.
 
 ```yml
 # lefthook.yml
@@ -1291,14 +1301,10 @@ pre-commit:
   commands:
     lint:
       glob: "*.rb"
-      exclude:
-        - config/routes.rb
-        - config/application.rb
-        - spec/rails_helper.rb
+      exclude: '(^|/)(application|routes|rails_helper|initializers/\w+)\.rb$'
       run: bundle exec rubocop --force-exclusion {staged_files}
 ```
 
-
 **Notes**
 
 Be careful with the config file format's string quoting and escaping rules when writing regexps in it. For YAML, single quotes are often the simplest choice.
@@ -1367,7 +1373,7 @@ pre-commit:
 
 **Default: `false`**
 
-> **Note**
+> [!NOTE]
 >
 > If you want to pass stdin to your command or script but don't need to get the input from CLI, use [`use_stdin`](#use_stdin) option instead.
 
@@ -1381,7 +1387,7 @@ Whether to use interactive mode. This applies the certain behavior:
 
 **Default: `0`**
 
-> **Note**
+> [!NOTE]
 >
 > This option makes sense only when `parallel: false` or `piped: true` is set.
 >
@@ -1464,7 +1470,7 @@ When you try to commit `git commit -m "bad commit text"` script `template_checke
 
 ### `use_stdin`
 
-> **Note**
+> [!NOTE]
 >
 > With many commands or scripts having `use_stdin: true`, only one will receive the data. The others will have nothing. If you need to pass the data from stdin to every command or script, please, submit a [feature request](https://github.com/evilmartians/lefthook/issues/new?assignees=&labels=feature+request&projects=&template=feature_request.md).
 
diff --git a/internal/lefthook/runner/filters/filters.go b/internal/lefthook/runner/filters/filters.go
index 932b9700..6be7bda5 100644
--- a/internal/lefthook/runner/filters/filters.go
+++ b/internal/lefthook/runner/filters/filters.go
@@ -80,15 +80,21 @@ func byExclude(vs []string, matcher interface{}) []string {
 
 		return vsf
 	case []interface{}:
-		excludeNames := make(map[string]struct{}, len(exclude))
+		if len(exclude) == 0 {
+			return vs
+		}
+
+		globs := make([]glob.Glob, 0, len(exclude))
 		for _, name := range exclude {
-			excludeNames[name.(string)] = struct{}{}
+			globs = append(globs, glob.MustCompile(name.(string)))
 		}
 
 		vsf := make([]string, 0)
 		for _, v := range vs {
-			if _, excluded := excludeNames[v]; !excluded {
-				vsf = append(vsf, v)
+			for _, g := range globs {
+				if ok := g.Match(v); !ok {
+					vsf = append(vsf, v)
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/testdata/exclude.txt b/testdata/exclude.txt
index 9904b4af..852fb26f 100644
--- a/testdata/exclude.txt
+++ b/testdata/exclude.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ stdout 'excluded.txt lefthook.yml not-excluded.txt'
 exec lefthook run -f regexp
 stdout 'lefthook.yml not-excluded.txt'
 exec lefthook run -f array
-stdout 'lefthook.yml not-excluded.txt'
+stdout 'not-excluded.txt'
 
 -- lefthook.yml --
 skip_output:
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ regexp:
   commands:
     echo:
       run: echo {staged_files}
-      exclude: '^excluded.txt'
+      exclude: '^excluded\.[tx]+'
 
 array:
   commands:
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ array:
       run: echo {staged_files}
       exclude:
         - exclude.txt
+        - '*.yml'
 
 -- not-excluded.txt --
 sometext