Does --ignore-dir support wildcards?

[Yagamy Light]

I just found out my alias `ack --ignore-dir=".*" …` doesn't work, ack still descends to directories starting with dot.

Documentation for this option consists of just one sentence "Add/remove directory from list of ignored dirs", so I'm wondering how to make it work? I also tried `--ignore-dir="\..*"` in case it supports regex, to no avail though.

[Andy Lester]

> On Jul 2, 2020, at 8:57 AM, Yagamy Light <hiang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just found out my alias `ack --ignore-dir=".*" …` doesn't work, ack still descends to directories starting with dot.
>
> Documentation for this option consists of just one sentence "Add/remove directory from list of ignored dirs", so I'm wondering how to make it work? I also tried `--ignore-dir="\..*"` in case it supports regex, to no avail though.

You're close.

It would be --ignore-dir=match:^\.

[Yagamy Light]

Thank you very much! Sorry I didn't reply, your suggestion works for me. For side readers I should note, I had to quote the option, otherwise the shell seem to have been expanding silently something in it, so it didn't work.