Re: Glob and grep

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/16/19, Nick Cross <zsh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> While I've been able to find varying amounts of information on the net I
> haven't found quite enough to get the following working.
>
> I would like to condense the following into a single grep / glob
> expression where I search recursively through a directory tree, ignoring
> any sub-trees starting with 'test' or 'target'.
>
> grep <pattern> **/*.groovy  | egrep -v "(/test/|/target/)"
>
> While I found information about ^(xxx) it wasn't clear how to have
> multiple expressions to ignore.
>
> Am I right in thinking I can add (.) to e.g. *.groovy to ensure I only
> search for files as well ?

I think what you want is
grep <pattern> (^(test|target)/)#*.groovy(.)

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Mikael Magnusson