How can I get `find` to ignore .svn directories?

Question

I often use the find command to search through source code, delete files, whatever. Annoyingly, because Subversion stores duplicates of each file in its .

Answer 1

wcfind is a find wrapper script that I use to automagically remove .svn directories.

Answer 2

To resolve this problem, you can simply use this find condition:

find \( -name 'messages.*' ! -path "*/.svn/*" \) -exec grep -Iw uint {} +

You can add more restriction like this:

find \( -name 'messages.*' ! -path "*/.svn/*" ! -path "*/CVS/*" \) -exec grep -Iw uint {} +

You can find more information about this in man page section "Operators": http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?find