alias svn_find="find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \)"
Now you can do things like
svn_find -mtime -3
D/l ack from http://betterthangrep.com/
Unless you have files that include 'svn' in them, this should provide enough information to be useful. If you need to be certain, add the leading dot in the search pattern
Variant of find grep that ignores files with .svn in the name. Useful for searching through a local repository of source code.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -type f -exec grep PATTERN {} +
the '+' means for exec to build the grep command with many arguments much like xargs does.ack PATTERN
ack ignores .svn (and other version control) directories automatically, is recursive by default and has lots of other useful switches like limiting to certain file types. So to just search PHP files,ack --php PATTERN
grep * --exclude-dir='.svn'