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How to find the files recursively having a text pattern excluding some directories and files? Example:- $ ls bower.json bower_components configure results unit-tests so I need ...

grep --exclude=\*.{mp3,jpg,pdf,png} -i "size\|log" | cut -c 32-|grep -v name1 |grep -v name2 it's not working for me i want to do something like ls -la | grep --exclude=\*.{mp3,jpg,pdf,png}...

I want to traverse all subdirectories, except the node_modules directory.

I needed to find all the files that contained a specific string pattern. The first solution that comes to mind is using find piped with xargs grep: find . -iname '*.py' | xargs grep -e 'YOUR_PATTERN' ...

Is there a way to exclude certain paths/directories/files when searching a Git repository using git grep? Something similar to the --exclude option in the normal grep command? I need to use git grep ...

How do I use grep to search the current directory for any and all files containing the string "hello" and display only .h and .cc files?

When I want to grep all the html files in some directory, I do the following grep --include="*.html" pattern -R /some/path which works well. The problem is how to grep all the html,htm,php files in ...

With the normal grep command there is an --exclude option (covered in detail here: Use grep --exclude/--include syntax to not grep through certain files) that lets you ignore specific files when you ...

I want to check if all of my strings exist in a text file. They could exist on the same line or on different lines. And partial matches should be OK. Like this: ... string1 ... string2 ... string3 ....

I've read Use grep --exclude/--include syntax to not grep through certain files but in my CentOS6.4, when I do grep --exclude=*.cmd ckim * -r I see lots of grepped lines from *.cmd files. so it ...

A coworker is trying to use ack (a Perl program) on his Windows machine, having tried it under Linux and decided he definitely wants to use it. He managed to get Strawberry Perl installed on his ...

Im trying to look for the text Elapsed time inside a specific log file names vsim.log. Im not familiar with grep, but after some googling I found that grep -r will allow me to do recursively searches ...

We have a rather large and complex file system and I am trying to generate a list of files containing a particular text string. This should be simple, but I need to exclude the './svn' and './pdv' ...

I wish to grep certain files that only exist below a specific subdirectory. Here, I only want .xml files if they exist below the /bar/ subdirectory: ./file0.xml ./.git/file1a.xml ./.git/bar/file1b....

In bash, grep -r --exclude={*.c,} 'HELLO' // exclude c files grep -r --include={*.c,} 'HELLO' // just same with grep -r 'HELLO' What's the problem?