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Question: can directories be excluded on finding files #380

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FrankKlappe opened this issue Jun 26, 2024 · 4 comments
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Question: can directories be excluded on finding files #380

FrankKlappe opened this issue Jun 26, 2024 · 4 comments

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@FrankKlappe
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In the "Find and replace" dialog its possible to find files in a directory. In my case i want to search a directory with all its subdirectories except specific directories (like the dir node_modules). Can BowPad exclude certain directories?

@stefankueng
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you see the "folders to search" box at the bottom of the find dialog?

@FrankKlappe
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Sure thing I see the "folders to search" box, but this only allows to select a single folder right? So imagine the following, I have a folder structure:

c:\git
c:\git\project1
c:\git\project3
c:\git\project3\subfolder
c:\git\project3\othersubfolder
c:\git\project4
c:\git\project5
c:\git\project5\subfolder
c:\git\project5\othersubfolder

so say i want to find a file, but i dont know which folder it sits in, so my "folder to search" becomes c:\git, including subfolders. But I know for sure my files wont be in the folder "othersubfolder", is there a way to exclude the folder "othersubfolder"?

@stefankueng
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sorry, but that's not possible.

@FrankKlappe
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Would you consider this as a feature request?

I noticed your other project, GrepWin, does have this option. It would be really nice to combine these two great tools

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