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I'm trying to use grep to automatically locate the bibtex program in the user's bin folder.
The problem is, it frequently returns a directory with the name bibtex, which means that the script fails to automatically run the command.
How can I force grep (or indeed the locate command) to automatically ignore directories?
EDIT: The current command is: locate bibtex | grep "/bibtex$" -d skip | head -n1
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Since many files contain database references, you might get a lot of data on output, so if you are only interested in all the files containing matching text, you can use the grep -l option. This option of grep only shows filenames that contain matching text.
You would need --exclude-dir="dir1" , which excludes elsewhere/dir1 as well. Note that if a directory is excluded, its subdirectories are excluded as well, so --exclude-dir="dir1" also excludes files in . config/dir1/dir2 . If grep's exclude patterns aren't sufficient for you, you can combine find with grep .
Go to Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection. Under Virus & threat protection settings, select Manage settings, and then under Exclusions, select Add or remove exclusions. Select Add an exclusion, and then select from files, folders, file types, or process.
To read a list of files to exclude from a file, use --exclude-from FILE .
The find command?
find /bin -name bibtex -type f
Looks for a file name "bibtex" of type "f", which is a regular file.
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locate --basename '\bibtex' --limit 1
Eliminates the need for grep and head, but still doesn't solve the issue of whether the result is a directory.
Why don't you do:
type -P bibtex
which will look in the PATH for a program by that name?
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