How can I exclude a directory and its subdirectories?

[andradei]

I'm trying to search from root, but excluding some directories like /proc and /sys. But can't find the right glob patter.

Here's what I've tried in order to remove the /proc dir:

• rg -g'!/proc firefox /
• rg -g'!proc/ firefox /
• rg -g'!proc/* firefox /
• rg -g'!proc/** firefox /

But /proc and its subdirectories come up in all results.

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My rg is aliased as such:

alias rg="rg -g '!{**/node_modules/*,**/.git/*}' --hidden --follow"

[andradei]

The --follow was conflicting with the exclusion of /proc since that dir isn't really a dir or a file (it is treated differently by Linux).

I ended up running this to exclude /proc and other things (notice that --no-follow makes it work):

rg -g '!{/proc,/sys,**/*.js,**/*.css,/home,**/*.py}' --no-follow firefox /

[mbana]

The --follow was conflicting with the exclusion of /proc since that dir isn't really a dir or a file (it is treated differently by Linux).

I ended up running this to exclude /proc and other things (notice that --no-follow makes it work):

rg -g '!{/proc,/sys,**/*.js,**/*.css,/home,**/*.py}' --no-follow firefox /

Thanks for this!

I tend to now just do:

alias rg='rg --no-follow --glob "!{/proc,/sys,$(go env GOPATH),**/.git/*}"'
alias fd='fd --exclude /proc --exclude /sys --exclude $(go env GOPATH)'