Grep -- how do I ignore .svn directories?

[alex.barylski]

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"grep -RnH '$what' $PROJECT_FIND_PATH "

I need the line numbers and such that grep offers (unless find does too?) the the results are expected in 'grep' format so find won't work unless it returns the results *exactly* the same...

I need to somehow ignore .svn directories -- possible?

Cheers,
Alex

[VladSun]

As you know, you can always use find instead of grep -R

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grep -nH $what `find '$where' -wholename '*/.svn*' -prune -o -print -type f`

[alex.barylski]

Dude...your the man.

Awesome...but I assume $where is project path?

Killer stuff...thanks again

[Chris Corbyn]

I usually just do this:

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grep something /path | grep -v .svn

grep does have an --exclude=pattern option too.

[VladSun]

It's a too much resource consuming solution
I mean - grep for a text is slower than pre-excluding directories not to be searched by using find.

And I'm not sure whether the --exclude=PATTERN option will match against full path string or file name string.

[bottomless]

Use a recent version of grep (2.5.3 or better) so you can use the --exclude-dir switch that does work as expected:
http://blog.bottomlessinc.com/2008/06/i ... -searches/