How to exclude a particular directory from being searched while using grep function
 

How to exclude a particular directory from being searched while using grep function,like for example I want to grep for a pattern "abc" in a directory called main but I don't want to search for "abc" in one of the sub directories,say sub of main.So how to exclude sub from being grepped?

have you tried consulting "man grep"

it has this options:

--exclude, and --exclude-dir

Like:

grep -r "Search_this_dir" /path/to/be/search --exclude-dir="do_not_include_this_dir"


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