Question

Is there any way I could use grep to ignore some files when searching something, something equivalent to svnignore or gitignore? I usually use something like this when searching source code.

grep -r something * | grep -v ignore_file1 | grep -v ignore_file2

Even if I could set up an alias to grep to ignore these files would be good.

Answer 1

--exclude option on grep will also work:

grep  perl * --exclude=try* --exclude=tk*

This searches for perl in files in the current directory excluding files beginning with try or tk.