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• OK, but first any help with grep --exclude? (Score:1)

  by mr_bean (3802) on 2006.12.01 3:46 (#51999) Journal

  I'm interested, because using :grep in vim fills up my buffer list with blib/lib files.
  
  If I could get :grep --exclude to work, I might be less interested.
  
  What's the correct way to use grep --exclude to exclude blib/lib files? I can never get it to work.

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by arc (5008)

    The current release of GNU grep can't do it.

    The CVS tree has support for a new option --exclude-dir, which will allow you to put things like these into your $GREP_OPTIONS environment variable:

    • --exclude-dir=blib
    • --exclude-dir=.svn
    • --exclude-dir=CVS

    Though, that said, it's not clear to me how soon there'll be a release of GNU grep supporting that feature.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by petdance (2468)

    Don't bother with the grep. Get ack to take care of it. It ignores .svn and blib, and you can use --perl to only find Perl files.

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    • I'm a happy camper (Score:1)

      by mr_bean (3802)

      With :se grepprg=ack, I can use ack in vim, and avoid all the buffer list pollution with blib/lib files and backup files I had using grep.