On 17 March 2012 09:18, Worth, Kevin kevin.worth@hp.com wrote:
I have some symlinks in our code directories that are produced as part of a build process and the result is upon a recursive Find in Files in my top-level directory, I have several “copies” in the results.
I can do
find <directory> -type f | xargs grep <search string>
as find does not follow symlinks by default.
However, due to not wanting to duplicate behavior that find already has, grep itself doesn’t offer options to control symlink following.
Any suggestions on how I can get geany’s find-in-files not to follow symlinks? I tried replacing “grep” in my preferences with “find . -type f | xargs grep” but that didn’t see to work (Cannot execute grep tool 'find -type f | xargs grep'; check the path setting in Preferences)
Hi Kevin,
The command is not run in a shell, so you can't pipe commands together. You could use a script instead of grep directly. This will need to edit the options Geany gives grep appropriately.
Cheers Lex
Thanks!
-Kevin
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