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Title: Exclude directories from recursive grep Date: 2008-11-16 16:20:13

How often are you using grep in subversionned folders like that:

:::bash
grep -rni foobar . | grep -v .svn

Upgrade to grep 2.5.3 and use (alias it ?)

:::bash
grep -rni --exclude-dir .svn foobar .

(or ... stop using SVN !!!)