Feature: Exclude Folder From Search

[andreostevens]

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" ~/

[glensc]

--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).

[kalegood]

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.

[sebma]

@adrianlopezroche Hi, any change since this issue was created ? I also do need this feature.

[adrianlopezroche]

Working on it.

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[GTP95]

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.

[RolandHughes]

Yes, +1. Being able to exclude a list of directories from search would be awesome. People been asking since 2014 and it still isn't there.

[GitTworn]

I would like this feature too.

I backup my phone photos to my Synology NAS. Synology has an app called Photos which works great for viewing them later. It creates a special folder called "@eaDir" in every folder which has photos or videos in it with thumbnails and other meta data.

When I scan the Photos directory using fdupes I would like to exclude all directories with the name "@eaDir" to only focus on the actual image files.

Is there a way to do that now?

[ph9t]

Would be really helpful specially for those people who have like billions of node_modules, virtual environments, &c. directories lying about everywhere.

[rickalex21]

Same problem as @ph9t , I have a ton of node_modules a --exclude would be nice.

[m-chaturvedi]

A temporary solution is copying the output of ls -d */ | grep -v '\excluded dir' to fdupes ./ --recurse: paste_output_here

@andreostevens I wrote undupes to leverage the Unix philosophy to address these kinds of issues :-). @glensc https://github.com/m-chaturvedi/undupes