Ignoring directories with a pattern in ackrc

[Thameera Senanayaka]

Hi,

I have directories that are named like bc0081, bc0091, bc0171 and so on. Is it possible to give a pattern to --ignore-dir? I tried --ignore-dir=bc0* but it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks,

Thameera

[Andy Lester]

On May 3, 2013, at 1:44 AM, Thameera Senanayaka <thame...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have directories that are named like bc0081, bc0091, bc0171 and so on. Is it possible to give a pattern to --ignore-dir? I tried --ignore-dir=bc0* but it doesn't seem to work.

Wait until ack 2.06. Right now, we don't support any sort of matching other than exact filenames.

After 2.06 comes out, you'll do that as: --ignore-dir=match:bc0.* or even --ignore-dir=match:^bc0\d+$

Note that --ignore-dir and --ignore-file and indeed all file-match in ack is done with regular expressions, *not* with shell glob patterns.

xoa

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[Perry Trinier]

Hi there,

Sorry to revive an ancient thread, but I'm using ack version 2.14 and when I try regex file matching as above I get the following:

Non-is filters are not yet supported for --ignore-dir at /usr/local/bin/ack line 155.

main::_compile_file_filter(HASH(0x7fb9121a7d20), ARRAY(0x7fb9140bccc8)) called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 946

main::main() called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 73

Was the regex file matching never fully implemented?

[Andy Lester]

> On Nov 18, 2016, at 2:26 PM, Perry Trinier <perryt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry to revive an ancient thread, but I'm using ack version 2.14 and when I try regex file matching as above I get the following:
>
> Non-is filters are not yet supported for --ignore-dir at /usr/local/bin/ack line 155.
> main::_compile_file_filter(HASH(0x7fb9121a7d20), ARRAY(0x7fb9140bccc8)) called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 946
> main::main() called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 73

Can you please paste the exact command line you used?

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[Perry Trinier]

Here's the line from my ackrc: --ignore-dir=match:.*target . Since I couldn't get this to work I just listed each target directory separately in the ackrc.

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[Andy Lester]

> On Nov 19, 2016, at 12:55 PM, Perry Trinier <perryt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here's the line from my ackrc: --ignore-dir=match:.*target . Since I couldn't get this to work I just listed each target directory separately in the ackrc.
>

Can you please post a full command line, with the --noenv flag (so it ignores .ackrc), and the exact error message it gave?

[Perry Trinier]

ptrinier@mbp dev: ack search --noenv --ignore-dir=match:.*target

Non-is filters are not yet supported for --ignore-dir at /usr/local/bin/ack line 155.

main::_compile_file_filter(HASH(0x7fc4a28f9938), ARRAY(0x7fc4a30ac2e0)) called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 946

main::main() called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 73

[Andy Lester]

> On Nov 18, 2016, at 2:26 PM, Perry Trinier <perryt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry to revive an ancient thread, but I'm using ack version 2.14 and when I try regex file matching as above I get the following:
>
> Non-is filters are not yet supported for --ignore-dir at /usr/local/bin/ack line 155.
> main::_compile_file_filter(HASH(0x7fb9121a7d20), ARRAY(0x7fb9140bccc8)) called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 946
> main::main() called at /usr/local/bin/ack line 73

Yes, in 2.15_01 we added:

* ack now supports --ignore-dir=match:.... Thanks, Ailin Nemui! (GitHub ticket #42)

What threw me off was the stack trace. Did you do something to add a Carp::Always call to your ack?