Grep: Excluding a specific folder using

Question

Say our folder structure looks like this:

/app
/app/data
...
/app/secondary
/app/secondary/data

I want to recursively search /app/data but I do not want to search /app/secondary/data.

From within the app folder, what would my grep command look like?

Answer 1

This will do the trick

grep -r --exclude-dir='secondary/data' PATTERN data