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Ross Allen
Ross Allen

Reputation: 473

recursive grep skipping/excluding/ignoring all subdirectories

This is going to be my dumbest question yet. I'm sure it's stupidly obvious, but for the life of me, I could not find a solution.

I simply want to search all files in my current directory for a pattern, ignoring all subdirectories. Things I've tried:

grep "mytext" .-> complains that . is a directory

grep -r "mytext" . -> searches all subdirectories

grep "mytext" -> just freezes (searching entire machine?)

grep -rd skip "mytext" . -> skips current directory

Upvotes: 3

Views: 72

Answers (1)

Ross Allen
Ross Allen

Reputation: 473

My last attempt was on the right track. I figured I'd answer the question for posterity instead of just deleting it (which was tempting since I feel stupid for having to ask it in the first place).

The solution was to use the skip directories with a wildcard. i.e.

grep -rd skip "mytext" ./*

Upvotes: 2

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