Add Exclude A Specific File From fd Results as a Unix TIL

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unix/exclude-a-specific-file-from-fd-results.md

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+# Exclude A Specific File From fd Results
+
+I recent wrote a
+[`cat-to-markdown`](https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/my-dotfiles/bin/cat-to-markdown)
+script that can be piped a list of files from the output of another command to
+do its thing. I then used [`fd`](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) to list a
+specific set of files by extension that could be piped to this command.
+
+```bash
+fd -e js | cat-to-markdown | pbcopy
+```
+
+This worked, but I quickly realized that one of the JavaScript files included in
+that listing was massive and didn't need to be included.
+
+To exclude it from the list I can use the `-E` flag and then name the file like
+so:
+
+```bash
+fd -e js -E super-large-file.js | cat-to-markdown | pbcopy
+```
+
+I believe this can be an exact match file path or even a pattern that matches
+multiple files.
+
+See `man fd` for more details.