I want to make a recursive search with findstr while excluding folders starting with . (e.g. .git, .github, .ipynb_checkpoints, etc.).
Based on this answer, I am using
findstr /C:"valid" /N /S *py | findstr /V ".*\"
but returns files in .ipynb_checkpoints folder. I would like to have a one-line solution.
The findstr /V ".*\" part is not working because the backslashes seem to be treated in a weird way. Part of the problem is caused by cmd.exe (in PowerShell, it’s a bit different). Using four backslashes (in cmd.exe) will match a single backslash in the input, and it nearly works:
findstr /C:"valid" /N /S *py | findstr /V ".*\\"
Unfortunately, the above will not only omit .ipynb_checkpoints* but it will also omit lines where the dot is not at the beginning of the line – even if you use /B.
The following works, using regular expressions:
findstr /C:"valid" /N /S *py | findstr /V /R "^..*\\"
If you use PowerShell, use just two instead of four backslashes:
findstr /C:"valid" /N /S *py | findstr /V /R "^..*\"
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