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How to ignore multiple files and directories with grive?

rated 0 times [ 4] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2606 / 3 Years ago, wed, may 12, 2021, 2:28:09

Here is grive's man page section for ignore.

--ignore <perl_regexp>

              Ignore  files  with  relative  paths  matching this Perl Regular

              Expression.  Value is remembered for next runs.

I do not know how to use perl regular expressions, but would like to be able to ignore multiple directories like so grive --ignore ./irrelevant/file.txt && ./unnecesary/file.txt

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answered 3 Years ago brellked · Accepted Answer

Ignoring multiple directories can be done by using positive lookahead.
This regex ignores the directories "irrelevant" and "unnecessary":

grive --ignore '(?=^irrelevant$)|(?=^unnecessary$)'

The dry-run command I used for testing:

grive --dry-run --verbose --ignore '(?=^irrelevant$)|(?=^unnecessary$)' > output.txt 2>&1

The directories 'irrelevant' and 'unnecessary' were ignored while the file 'irrelevant1' was not. Hope this works for you.

Update (as of 2017-04-01): latest version of grive2 introduced .griveignore which is syntactically close to .gitignore.