Ingoring .svn files with grep

If you're using a software respository like Subversion and you're having hassle with your repo files turning up in your Grep searches then there are a couple of things you can do to tidy this up.

Searching with the -v option removes that pattern from the search. So something like this will exclude all the .svn files from your grep search results:

grep -r mystring mypath | grep -v .svn


or using the --exclude option as is says in the grep man page.

"
--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.
"


grep -r --exclude=\*.svn\* mystring mypath


But an edit to your .bashrc file like this will exclude .svn from grep searches them forever!

Just open your .bashrc file and stick this at the top:

GREP_OPTIONS="--exclude=\*.svn\*"
export GREP_OPTIONS


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