Grep exclusions. Demonstrates how to exclude multiple directories, and files.

gistfile1.sh

grep -r --color --exclude-dir={custom,lib,scripts} --exclude={*.xml,error_log} "beta" .

won't work on Mac OS X

@c9n (or any OS X user)- If you use Homebrew, you can get the standard GNU grep with:

 brew install grep --with-default-names

If you want to go "all-in" on GNU tools see: Install and Use GNU Command Line Tools on Mac OS X

I was tired of always typing --exclude-dir= and wrote a small wrapper for grep that reads excludes from config files. Maybe others will find it helpful: https://github.com/gwgundersen/gp

@gwgundersen gp sounds nice, but it is very similar to git grep in practice.

The --exclude-dir={...} now works on OSX, as far as I can tell. I didn't manually override it with brew as previously suggested, and this is a new machine on El Capitan.

Thanks! First result for "grep ignore multiple directories" ^_^

Much appreciated!

Just a heads up if you didn't notice that you can't have spaces between those folders after the comma. It throws a parse error.

Thanks!!!

"The --exclude-dir={...} now works on OSX, as far as I can tell." from @jpucinno same for me.
on OSX it works

Gold! thanks buddy!

Awesome, Thanks!

This works both on Mac OS and Linux :)

# --color: highlight matched string
# -r: recursive search
# -i: ignore case
# --exclude: exclude specified files
# --exclude-dir: exclude specified dir

grep --color -r -i "foo\|bar" --exclude={\*.csv,\*.txt} --exclude-dir={.git,.idea,vendor} .

muchos gracias.