--exclude / -e

Info

• The --exclude flag allows you to skip specific files or directories when building the tree.
• You can use glob patterns (wildcards) to match multiple paths.

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Usage

Usage

Only *log files

# Exclude all log files
show-file-tree  --exclude "*.log"

A specific folder

# Exclude a specific folder
show-file-tree  --exclude "tests/*"

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Example

Example how this command works

Files in project

src/
tests/
README.md
debug.log
config.yaml

Command

show-file-tree  --exclude "*.log" --exclude "tests/*"

Output

├── 📁 src
├── README.md
└── config.yaml # (1)!

1. debug.log and tests/ are excluded from the tree.

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Tips

Tip

• Multiple --exclude flags can be combined for fine-grained filtering.
• Combine with --include to focus on specific file types while ignoring others:
  Both

  show-file-tree  --include "*.py" --exclude "tests/*"
  

• Works with --format md to generate filtered Markdown documentation.

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