Exclude directories from the search

Alexandr Stepanov · Oct 11, 2015, 6:09 PM

Добрый день.
Ищу вхождение слова в текстовых файлах. Поиск идет в директории с поддиректориями.
Подскажите пожалуйста, как исключить некоторые поддиректории из поиска ?

edit from moderator: (translated from g.translator) :

Good afternoon.
I am entering words in text files. Search is in a directory with subdirectories.
Please tell me how to exclude certain subdirectories from the search?

guy038 · Oct 11, 2015, 5:04 PM

Hello, Alexandr Stepanov

I, first, translated your Russian text in English, with Google !

AFAIK, in the Find in Files dialog of N++ ( CTRL + SHIFT + F ), you can add several filters as, for instance, *.xml *.txt

But, unfortunately, you can’t write several paths in the directory field nor exclude some paths from search.

I’m agree with you : it could be a nice improvement, in future releases.

For instance, the text C:\_683\ C:\_681\ C:\_679 | C:\_681\localization, in Directory field, would search :

In the C:\_683\ folder, and its sub-directories, due to the last backslash
In the C:\_681\ folder, and its sub-directories, due to the last backslash, and except for the C:\_681\localization folder, written after the vertical line character |
In the C:\_679 folder, ONLY, because NO backslash ends the path

Of course, if the In all sub-folders option was UNCHECKED, it would have priority, to the syntaxes above.

Right now, it’s still a dream :-((

Cheers,

guy038

Jim Dailey · Oct 12, 2015, 1:13 PM

+1 Having an exclude files AND exclude directories feature would be a great addition! For me it would work best if they worked similar to the “Filters:” box for files. That is, they would allow multiple entries with wildcards.

Being able to exclude file types is useful when you want to use *.* to search all types of files that you care about without having to specify each and every one.

tomas-chrastina · Oct 12, 2015, 7:15 PM

+1

It would be great to have this feature. Many times I was forced to use Total Commander search instead.

Cees Timmerman · Nov 30, 2015, 9:33 AM

I’ve manually set my project’s .meteor folder to hidden so it will only be included when “In hidden folders” is checked.

guy038 · Nov 30, 2015, 8:31 PM

Hello Cees,

Very clever solution, Indeed ! Thanks for sharing it :-) I haven’t thought of that simple and useful work-around, yet !

Best Regards,

guy038