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

Exclude A Specific File From fd Results

I recent wrote a 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 to list a specific set of files by extension that could be piped to this command.

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:

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.