Re: egrep --exclude problem

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

The latest release, grep-2.5.3, introduced the long awaited option:

    --exclude-dir=PATTERN
    directories that match PATTERN will be skipped.

You can get grep-2.5.3 from:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/

Cheers,

TAA

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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Yakov Lerner wrote:
> > I am doing
> >           egrep --exclude=.svn -r foo .
> > but grep still prints matches under .svn subtree ?
> > Why ? What I am doing wrong ?
>
> The man page for grep says:
>
>          --exclude=PATTERN
>               Recurse in directories skip file matching PATTERN.
>
> The exclude is documented to match only files and not directories.
>
> Let me suggest using find instead.  This is certainly more words but
> it also works with any of the commands and so is worth it.
>
>   find . -name .svn -prune -o -type f -exec grep foo {} +
>
> Alternatively you could use the shell to expand to files that are not
> the .svn directory.  The following is not standard (not POSIX) but
> does work with bash and possibly other shells with extensions.
>
>   grep -r foo !(.svn)
>
> You can see how this works with 'echo'.
>
>   echo grep -r foo !(.svn)
>
> Bob
>
>