Avoid .svn folder when using grep

jostmart · 06-01-2007, 06:56 AM

Hi
When I am using grep f.ex. "grep -ire 'something' ." and theres an .svn folder, grep will go trough that folder also. How can I exclude folders and/or files?

b0uncer · 06-01-2007, 07:33 AM

Can't remember if grep does it someway, but first thing I'd do is first use find to create a list of the directories you want, excluding those you don't, and then using that as a start-off for grep.

hradtke · 06-02-2007, 12:27 AM

This should work:

find . -path "*.svn" -prune -o -exec grep -ie "something" {} \;

The -prune command is saying to ignore that path. We use the * so as you recurse through the tree with find, we still omit the .svn dir. Note that you do not need to recurse through each directory with grep in this case.