Problem when excluding a folder from a seach

JolyLoic · Post by **JolyLoic** » 2008 Feb 13, 16:04

Hello,

When searching for a folder & its subfolders, I want to exclude all folders that are used for management by subversion. These folders are named ".svn". If I choose to look into :
c:\,-.svn

It does not work. I guess the . must be interpreted somehow...
If I choose to look into :
c:\,-*svn
it works, but might skip folders I would not like to skip.
I tried
c:\-".svn"
But it did not work either.

Is there any workaround ?

Thank you.

Demetris · Post by **Demetris** » 2008 Feb 13, 16:25

How about this?

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c:\, -*.svn

JolyLoic · Post by **JolyLoic** » 2008 Feb 13, 16:31

This might skip a "foobar.svn" folder. I just want to skip the ".snv" folders, with nothing before. I admit folders named "foobar.svn" are may not be really common, but who knows?

Post by **nikos** » 2008 Feb 13, 16:44

to minimize the risk, use -?svn
obviously that will skip Asvn etc but hey!

Demetris · Post by **Demetris** » 2008 Feb 13, 16:54

Or try searching for ?.svn with an alternative proper searcher* -- that is, not the Windows search :-p -- to see if there are any such folders in your system.

[*] I use Locate32.