On 2006-12-05, "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Matheson wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
> >
> >> KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >
> >> This is actually OT for Vim, since grep is an external program; but you
> >> can use
> >
> >> grep -r --exclude=PATTERN
> >
> >> to skip any directory matching the pattern (at least with GNU grep).
> >
> > Apparently this doesn't work for GNU grep. It only excludes
> > matches on file basenames, I am told.
> >
> > Correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> >> In Vim you would use (IIUC)
> >
> >> :set grepprg=grep\ -r\ --exclude=*.svn
> >> :grep \<word\> ~/dir/subdir/*
> >
> >
>
> Hmm... In "man grep" I read
>
> -R, -r, --recursive
> Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is
> equiv-
> alent to the -d recurse option.
>
> --include=PATTERN
> Recurse in directories only searching file matching PATTERN.
>
> --exclude=PATTERN
> Recurse in directories skip file matching PATTERN.
>
> so maybe you're right. I haven't tested it.
I was going to suggest --exclude in response to the original post,
so I tested it. It doesn't work. However, you could use 'find' and
'xargs' with 'grep', something like this:
set grepprg=find\ .\ -name\ svn\ -prune\ -o\ -print\\\|\xargs\ grep\ -n
It's getting late, so that _is_ untested, although I've done
something similar before on a computer I don't have access to at the
moment.
HTH,
Gary
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