Re: Excluding files with grep

[Jian Wang]

I don't know clearly what your problem is. Grep has an option '--exclude'
used to exclude files. Is it what you want?

On 10/31/06, DarkRick < address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi... I'm new in grep world... I have a set of files, a.txt, b.txt, c.txt,
> but when I open one of those (suppose c.txt) it's damaged and it's content
> is full of 00 in hexadecimal format. I'm trying to list all files
> excluding
> the damaged one, but the only solution that I could find didn't work. Any
> ideas?
>
> I've tried this command first, "$ grep ^[1-9A-Za-z] *" but it shows files
> that has content... then, I tried with find, but it listed all the files.