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adrianlopezroche
Feature: Exclude Folder From Search
A feature that would be useful to add would be the option to ignore/exclude a folder.
For example, I want to find dupes in my home folder but don't want to delve into say: ~/.wine or .config.
A possible solution could be something like: fdupes -R --exclude={.wine,.config} ~/ or for simplicity:
fdupes -R --exclude=".wine" ~/
--exclude={.wine,.config} would be expanded by shell to --exclude=".wine .config" which is ambiguous whether you mean .wine .config or .wine and .config, so i rather suggest using --exclude as glob pattern and the option may be repeated. like it works in grep(1) and rsync(1).
A temporary solution is copying the output of ls -d */ | grep -v '\excluded dir' to fdupes ./ --recurse: paste_output_here
The semicolon is crucial. Also, there has to be a prettier way to do this, but that's the extent of my skills.
@adrianlopezroche Hi, any change since this issue was created ? I also do need this feature.
Working on it.
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 8:23 AM sebma [email protected] wrote:
@adrianlopezroche https://github.com/adrianlopezroche Hi, any change since this issue was created ? I also do need this feature.
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Would be great. This is the feature I miss most in fdupes. Thanks for your work.
I would like this feature too. There's already the option to list the directories to look into, but if you want to exclude just one directory inside a folder with lots of subfolders that is inconvenient.
