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I want to grep -R a directory but exclude symlinks how dow I do it?
Maybe something like grep -R --no-symlinks or something?
Thank you.
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Exclude Words and Patterns To display only the lines that do not match a search pattern, use the -v ( or --invert-match ) option. The -w option tells grep to return only those lines where the specified string is a whole word (enclosed by non-word characters). By default, grep is case-sensitive.
Overwriting Symlinks If you try to create a symbolic link that already exists , the ln command will print an error message. To overwrite the destination path of the symlink, use the -f ( --force ) option.
When searching with grep -r , it avoids following symbolic links by default. This is true for directories, but grep still inspects the contents of files that are symlinks.
The rm command is the dedicated tool for deleting files and directories from the system. Because the symlink itself is a file, we can use the rm command to remove it. The following rm command will remove the symlink. To remove multiple symlinks, use rm as you would to remove multiple files.
Gnu grep v2.11-8 and on if invoked with -r excludes symlinks not specified on the command line and includes them when invoked with -R.
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