Fast recursive grepping of svn working copy [duplicate]

Question

I need to search all cpp/h files in svn working copy for "foo", excluding svn's special folders completely. What is the exact command for GNU grep?

Answer 1

I use ack for this purpose, it's like grep but automatically knows how to exclude source control directories (among other useful things).

Answer 2

grep -ir --exclude-dir=.svn foo *

In the working directory will do. Omit the 'i' if you want the search to be case sensitive.

If you want to check only .cpp and .h files use

grep -ir --include={.cpp,.h} --exclude-dir=.svn foo *