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From: John Meinel <tla@johnmeinel.com>
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To: Zenaan Harkness <zen@cashpoolcomps.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions
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Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>Actually, I really wish grep had the workaround, because otherwise I 
>>have to do this little hack:
>>
>>grep -rn "what I want" * | grep -v "{arch}/"
>>
>>which means it still has to grep all of those files, it just doesn't 
>>tell me about it.
> 
> 
> So reverse your greps.
> 

That doesn't actually work. Because the final grep is actually greping 
out the filename given by the first grep, not the text in the file. 
Something that might work is:

$ find . ! -path "*arch*" -print0 | xargs -0 -n50 grep -rn "what I want"

That's quite a bit to type all the time, though I think it will always work.

I suppose I could define the alias:

$ alias noarchgrep='find . ! -path "*arch*" -print0 | \
	xargs -0 -n50 grep -rn'

I think if I type:
$ noarchgrep "what I want"

it does the right thing.

I don't really like aliases for only moderately used commands, though. 
Because I might not have set them on all of the machines that I use, and 
I frequently forget about them. That's one of the beauties of Unix. I 
know how find/grep/sed/etc works, and I can build up what I want from 
that, rather than having to remember 500 special case commands.

John
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