HOWTO: smarter BBEdit multi-file searching
In the new(er) versions of BBEdit, you can get really specific about what files to multi-file search through. I love this, check it out, you can include/exclude grep patterns.
I take advantage (?) of BBEdit’s auto-backup feature where it iterates a file name on the date with a version number so that you’re never overwriting your only copy. It saves the previous version as index-20050818-01.php or whatever. This is good. However, when you’re searching a directory for a criteria in the contents of your folder, this can _really_ bog down your time to completed search results.
If you create a criteria when you do a multi-file search with the following set up:
then it will skip over all of your backup files and only search the “live” or “non-backup” files. Extremely cool. 
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