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Grep exclusions. Demonstrates how to exclude multiple directories, and files.

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grep -r --color --exclude-dir={custom,lib,scripts} --exclude={*.xml,error_log} "beta" .

shawnkendrick commented Dec 18, 2018

Awesome, Thanks!

zhoulaosan0 commented Jan 9, 2019 •

edited

This works both on Mac OS and Linux :)

# --color: highlight matched string
# -r: recursive search
# -i: ignore case
# --exclude: exclude specified files
# --exclude-dir: exclude specified dir

grep --color -r -i "foo\|bar" --exclude={\*.csv,\*.txt} --exclude-dir={.git,.idea,vendor} .

nadim commented Jan 28, 2019

muchos gracias.

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