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Josef Klimuk
Asked: 2018-01-16 21:50:06 +0800 CST

How to grep without hidden files? [duplicate]

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I have two different regular files: myscript2 and myscript3 with word 'dash' inside. I want to grep them, but because of '-r' addition to grep I got hidden files as well. I tried to use 'grep -v' after pipe to get rid of hidden files. I failed. Why? What to do to solve my problem?

$ ls
myscript2
myscript3
$ cat myscript2
dash
$ grep -r -l 'dash' | grep -v '^.*'
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1 Answers

  1. Try --exclude:

    grep -R --exclude='.*' <pattern> <dir>
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