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Expand Up @@ -255,6 +255,14 @@ as a normal search pattern.
Exclude files/directories that match the given glob pattern.
This overrides any other ignore logic.
Multiple exclude patterns can be specified.
This uses the same syntax as ignore files (i.e. gitignore) and behaves as if
.I pattern
was a line in the global ignore file.

Note that for purposes of ignore rules, the current directory
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"Current directory" is kind of ambiguous. It's really the search path that is treated as the root, not the cwd.

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hmmm, this is.... interesting.

It looks like if there are multiple search paths, then it use the first one for all:

❯ fd
a/
a/other
a/test/
b/
b/a
b/test/
test/

❯ fd --exclude '/test' --search-path a
a/other

❯ fd --exclude '/test' --search-path b
b/a

❯ fd --exclude '/test' --search-path b --search-path b
b/a
b/a

❯ fd --exclude '/test' --search-path b --search-path a
a/other
a/test/
b/a

❯ fd --exclude '/test' --search-path a --search-path b
a/other
b/a
b/test/

is treated as the root, so patterns that begin with / will be anchored
against the current directory, not treated as absolute paths.

Examples:
\-\-exclude '*.pyc'
\-\-exclude node_modules
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