Grep excludes folder and search using linux

Question

Grep command

if i'm in

/var/

I want to find /var/www

recursively

but not

/var/www/exclude

+5

Jay davis May 18, '12 at 17:52

4 answers

xeor · Answer 1 · 2012-05-18T18:02:47+0000

You can also use grep -v "/ foldername /". -v takes away all matches.

grep -r string /var/www/ | grep -v "/exclude/"

praveen · Answer 2 · 2017-02-27T19:21:08+0000

Use --exclude=*.log* to skip files containing the word "log".

Gyscos · Answer 3 · 2012-05-18T17:58:48+0000

--exclude-dir=exclude.

: "", /var/www/exclude.

grep -r --exclude-dir=exclude pattern /var/www/

var, , , www:

grep -r --exclude-dir=exclude pattern www/

Pirooz · Answer 4 · 2012-05-18T18:04:23+0000

1) grep -R -f file.txt, file.txt , /var/www/exclude

2) bash script:

 for i in $( ls /var/www/ ); do
   if [ "$i" != "/var/www/exclude" ] ; then
      grep -R "my search term" $i
   fi
 done