the line
\ls -1 | grep -v log | xargs grep -r foobar
partially works except it will also skip the "blog" directory since it also gets excluded by grep -v log. (the \ls above is to make ls not do any alias such as ls -F)
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Q:
In Bash, is there a way to "grep -r foobar *" except it is everything except the "log" directory?
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find . -name log -prune -o -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep foobar
Paul Tomblin
2010-10-13 20:06:42
Sorry, it took me a couple of edits to get that right.
Paul Tomblin
2010-10-13 20:08:33
great answer. I think on my system i happen to have `.hg` (mercurial) so it grep for those files as well. Is there a way to skip those too?
動靜能量
2010-10-13 21:01:35
my first version ignores hidden directorys as well as the --exclude-dir version. To dig into these hidden dirs as well you have to change the wildcard from * to * .*
wose
2010-10-13 21:25:07
@Jian, you can add more directories to skip like `find . -name log -prune -o -name .hg -prune -o -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep foobar`
Paul Tomblin
2010-10-13 22:39:43
You can ignore all hidden directories by adding a `-name '.??*' -prune -o` into there before the `-type ...` part.
Paul Tomblin
2010-10-13 22:41:29
+3
A:
\ls -1 | grep -v ^log$ | xargs grep -r foobar
or
grep --exclude-dir=log -r foobar *
wose
2010-10-13 20:16:23
+1
A:
GNU grep has this option:
--exclude-dir=DIR
Exclude directories matching the pattern DIR from recursive searches.
nos
2010-10-13 20:31:06
I am trying on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and it seems like it is not in the man page. But I do see it on Ubuntu 10.10.10
動靜能量
2010-10-13 20:54:58
A:
with bash, you can use extglob
shopt -s extglob
grep "foobar" !(log)
ghostdog74
2010-10-13 23:58:14