(current directory) is a valid path, for example. On the first line, you specify the directory you want to search. | xargs -0 -I FILENAME grep -IR "pattern" FILENAME o -name "another_pattern_to_exclude" -prune \ If you are not averse to using find, I like its -prune feature: Also, I can't install anything, so I have to do with common tools (like grep or the suggested find). I can't search only certain directories (the directory structure is a big mess, with everything everywhere). If there's a better way of grepping only in certain files, I'm all for it moving the offending files is not an option. Searching on grep include, grep include exclude, grep exclude and variants did not find anything relevant exclude=PATTERN Recurse in directories skip file matching PATTERN. I know there are the -exclude=PATTERN and -include=PATTERN options, but what is the pattern format? The man page of grep says: -include=PATTERN Recurse in directories only searching file matching PATTERN. As these results are not relevant and slow down the search, I want grep to skip searching these files (mostly JPEG and PNG images). In the directories are also many binary files which match "foo=".
It's on a common Linux machine, I have bash shell: grep -ircl "foo=" * I'm looking for the string foo= in text files in a directory tree.
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