Ignore svn directories while you grep

I have seen a lot of posts that show you how to ignore svn files when you grep. However, there seems to be more demand for a script that ignores svn directories. Here is one option:

tgrep(){
     grep -r $1 * | grep -v .svn | while read line;
     do
          echo $line
     done
}

Just add the function to one of your bash config files (~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login), restart your terminal, and you are good to go. Here is a great article about how bash configs work. I put tgrep() in my .bashrc file, but also added the following to .bash_profile to force my .bashrc to load.

. ~/.bashrc

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