Support for command-line exclude patterns ? about the_silver_searcher HOT 8 CLOSED

Seems to be an --ignore flag now that works well

ag searchTerm myDirToSearch --ignore js --ignore css --ignore "*list"

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Now that there's an --ignore-dir can this be closed? Or is there still more work for this?

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/me ❤️ animated gifs. I like these ideas. Some of them can sort-of be implemented with a combination of -G and -v, but that's not very intuitive. I'll look into implementing them.

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Why not just have a single --ignore='foo' option (able to be given multiple times) that functions exactly like you added a line to .agignore?

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The format above is analogous to grep exclude patterns. I think it looks better than adding --ignore='foo' --ignore='blah' --ignore='iamtiredofwritingthisagain'

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No reason we can't have both. --exclude-files and --exclude-dirs are more work, though.

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Well. if I want to skip pdf doc jpg png out exe etc, does it means I need to append more and more --ignore options? I hope --ignore can support regex, then I can do that gracefully, i.e. --ignore "(pdf|doc|jpg|png|out|exe|)$".

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Any update on this? I get enormous results from doc/ folders that fill up my entire terminal.

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