Anne Wilson wrote: >Is there a way of using grep to search for a word in all directories except >those under /mnt ? > >Anne > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well you don't want to search /proc either....
The easy way is probably to use a list that you develop with ls and sed ls -I 'mnt' -I 'proc' -R -1 -d / | grep '/?|(yoursearchstring)' should generate the list of files matching your search with each match headed by its enclosing directories. That is is you are looking for a match in the file name. Now if you are looking for a match in the file contents, it is a little trickier,,, grep -i -l --exclude 'mnt|proc' -e (yourpatternwithoutquotes) / The -i is for ignore case and the -l lists only the file, not the matching lines within it. The --exclude implies recursive (-r or -d recurse). Civileme
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