diff --git a/docs/projectconf.rst b/docs/projectconf.rst
index 0188e9b3..552d96f3 100644
--- a/docs/projectconf.rst
+++ b/docs/projectconf.rst
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ be applied in theirs order.
 `GLOB Patterns <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)>`_ are allowed.
 
 By default, ``src_filter`` is predefined to
-``+<*> -<.git/> -<svn/> -<examples/>``, which means "includes ALL files, then
+``+<*> -<.git/> -<svn/> -<example*/>``, which means "includes ALL files, then
 exclude ``.git`` and ``svn`` repository folders and exclude ``examples`` folder.
 
 This option can be set by global environment variable
diff --git a/platformio/builder/tools/platformio.py b/platformio/builder/tools/platformio.py
index f6cc28b4..5b7629c2 100644
--- a/platformio/builder/tools/platformio.py
+++ b/platformio/builder/tools/platformio.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from SCons.Util import case_sensitive_suffixes
 SRC_BUILD_EXT = ["c", "cpp", "S", "spp", "SPP", "sx", "s", "asm", "ASM"]
 SRC_HEADER_EXT = ["h", "hpp"]
 SRC_DEFAULT_FILTER = " ".join([
-    "+<*>", "-<.git%s>" % sep, "-<svn%s>" % sep, "-<examples%s>" % sep
+    "+<*>", "-<.git%s>" % sep, "-<svn%s>" % sep, "-<example*%s>" % sep
 ])