grep -R --exclude=

thomas2004ch · 03-08-2013, 08:41 AM

Hi,

I want to grep a string assumed 'thomas2004' from all the files but exclude the *.log. I use a command as follow:

Code:

grep -R --exclude="*.log" thomas2004

But it seems it doesn't work.

Any idea?

druuna · 03-08-2013, 09:07 AM

Shouldn't that be:

Code:

grep -R --exclude="*.log" "thomas2004" *

David the H. · 03-09-2013, 10:09 AM

I suggest using '.' as the search path instead of '*'. The latter will be expanded by the shell into the full directory contents before execution. It may not make much overall difference, but it's best to be careful.

PS, while not particularly useful with "grep -R", in most other commands it's possible to use bash's extended globbing to exclude individual filenames from processing.