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Using grep recursively

grep has the ability to search recursively using the option -r. However, I was wondering if grep would be able to search the query string recursively for a certain number of levels of subfolders. For example, I have a folder rootthat has folders parent1, parent2, ..., parentN. Each parent folder has regular text files and folders called child1, child2, ..., childM. I would like to run grep from the root level and search the files inside the parents without looking at the child folders. Is there an easy way to do this?

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you can try:

Grep

 --exclude=GLOB
              Skip files whose base name matches GLOB  (using
              wildcard  matching).   A file-name  glob  can  use *,
              ?, and [...]  as wildcards, and \ to quote a wildcard
              or backslash character literally.

       --exclude-from=FILE
              Skip files whose base name matches any of the file-name
              globs  read  from FILE (using wildcard matching as
              described under --exclude).

       --exclude-dir=DIR
              Exclude directories matching the pattern DIR from
              recursive searches.

or use this find | xargs grep

with find you can determine the level

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