use Perl

• functions (Score:1)

  by itub (5708)

  You can also define functions in your .bashrc. Functions are more flexible than aliases, so you'll probably be able to do what you want.
  • Re:functions (Score:1)

    by Shlomi Fish (918)

    A function that does that is:
    
    
rgrep() { grep -r "$1" . | grep -vE 'svn|blib' ; }

    
    And then you say:
    
    $ rgrep $string
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (Score:1)

  by rblackwe (5489)

  The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide might profide you with some help. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ [tldp.org]
• Look at ack (Score:2)

  by petdance (2468)

  Look at my program ack, available as a distro in my CPAN directory [cpan.org].

  It doesn't exclude blib yet, but it does ignore .svn and CVS directories, and it does recursing into directories by default.

  --
  

  --
  xoa
• Svk (Score:1)

  by chromatic (983)

  That's why I use Svk. Well, okay... I use it for other reasons, but that's a nice benefit.

  (No, bash aliases can't take arguments.)
• rgrep for excluding .svn and blib (Score:1)

  by markjugg (792)

  I suggest rgrep [darcs.net] by Michael Schwern.

  This seems like one of those things that seemed "too small to put on CPAN", but probably isn't.
• Alias syntax (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  In csh, the alias syntax would be:
  
      alias stringgrep 'grep -r \!* .|grep -vE "svn|blib"'
  
  I suspect the bash syntax is similar.
  
  • Re:Alias syntax (Score:1)

    by Smylers (2592)

    No, there isn't an equivalent syntax for Bash aliases. This is because in C Shell the ! there is a history substitution, and history works differently in Bash from in C Shell.

    As others have said, use a function; there isn't really any advantage in using a Bash alias over a function (other than you're more likely already to know the alias syntax).

    I think this should do what you want (untested):

    function kerplop
    {
      grep -r "$@" . | grep -vE 'svn|blib'
    }

    (Function name courtesy of meta [cpan.org].)

    Smylers
• Bash functions (Score:1)

  by robin (1821)

  Bash functions are amazingly useful, and ridiculously simple. Just put something like this in your .bashrc.

  ovidgrep () {
  grep -r "$1" .| grep -vE 'svn|blib'
}