When I grep my Subversion working copy directory, the results include a lot of files from the .svn directories. Is it possible to recursively grep a directory, but exclude all results from .svn directories?
If you have GNU Grep, it should work like this:
grep --exclude-dir=".svn"
If happen to be on a Unix System without GNU Grep, try the following:
grep -R "whatever you like" *|grep -v "\.svn/*"
For grep >=2.5.1a
You can put this into your environment (e.g. .bashrc)
export GREP_OPTIONS='--exclude-dir=".svn"'
PS: thanks to Adrinan, there are extra quotes in my version:
export GREP_OPTIONS='--exclude-dir=.svn'