grep recursive exclusive search

Question

I have text I want to recursively search in mydir/. I would normally type grep -r "text to find" mydir/" but what would I type if I wanted to search all the files except a specific one?

For example, I do not want to search the file "myfile.txt" but it is contained in the directory.

What would I type?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '12 at 05:18

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You can achieve this by --exclude and --exclude-dir options of grep

For example:

grep -r --exclude-dir='<dirs_to_exclude>' PATTERN data

or

grep -r --exclude='<pattern_of_file>' PATTERN data

answered Jul 13 '12 at 05:18

Abhijeet Kasurde

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