Debian Bug report logs - #283094
Option to ignore certain directories (e.g., .svn) while recursing

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Option to ignore certain directories (e.g., .svn) while recursing

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:12:24 -0500

Package: grep
Version: 2.5.1.ds1-3.2
Severity: wishlist

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Due to subversion storing multiple copies of files, grep -r normally
picks out a bunch of files in .svn directories. It'd be nice if there
were a way to have grep skip directories named .svn (or anything else,
for that matter).

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (130, 'unstable'), (120, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-bohr
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages grep depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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Message #10 received at 283094@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>

To: 283094@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#283094: Acknowledgement (Option to ignore certain directories (e.g., .svn) while recursing)

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:55:49 -0500

FYI, I've seen --exclude in the grep manpage, but it doesn't seem to be 
able to ignore directories named .svn. I tried:

Things which don't seem to exclude anything:
	grep -r --exclude '/.svn/' string .
	grep -r --exclude '/.svn' string .
	grep -r --exclude '.svn' string .
	grep -r --exclude '*/.svn/*' string .
	grep -r --exclude '*\/\.svn\/*' string .

And these did exclude something, but excluded too much:
	grep -r --exclude '*.svn*' string .    # excluded .svnfoo

But even that didn't manage to exclude the subversion directories; it 
appears exlcude only works on file names, not directories....

Other than:
	find . -path '*/.svn/*' -prune -or -type f -print0 | \
		xargs -0 grep string
there does not seem to be a way to do a recursive grep that excludes 
.svn directories.

Message #13 received at 283094-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Justin T Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

To: 283094-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: this bug/#283094 - Option to ignore certain directories (e.g., .svn) while recursing

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:05:36 -0700

Hi Anthony,

#283094 - Option to ignore certain directories (e.g., .svn) while recursing
http://bugs.debian.org./283094

Why not just use find . ! -name '.svn' -print0 |xargs grep -r0 ...

See also #177180.

Message #18 received at 283094-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

To: 283094-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: This bug is fixed in 2.5.3

Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:26:27 +0100 (BST)

Package: grep
Version: 2.5.3-1

--exclude-dir was added to grep 2.5.3.

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