Re: grep -r --exclude problem

[John Cowan]

Bob Proulx scripsit:

> Here is a portable way to use find to do what you want.
> 
>   find . \( -name '*.bak' -o -name '*.sav' -o -name '*~' \) -prune -o -print \
>     | xargs grep PATTERN
> 
> You might still consider it tiresome to enter them all the same as in
> grep though.  In which case you would use the GNU find -regex option.

I usually avoid such complications by using a find | grep | xargs grep
pipeline, like this:

        find . -type f -print |
                egrep -v '(\.bak|\.sav|~)$' |
                xargs grep PATTERN

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