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All of the CLI options can be configured in the `ava` section of your `package.json`. This allows you to modify the default behavior of the `ava` command, so you don't have to repeatedly type the same options on the command prompt.

To ignore a file or directory, prefix the pattern with an `!` (exclamation mark).

```json
{
"ava": {
"files": [
"my-test-folder/*.js",
"!**/not-this-file.js"
"my-test-directory/**/*.js",
"!my-test-directory/exclude-this-directory/**/*.js",
"!**/exclude-this-file.js"
],
"source": [
"**/*.{js,jsx}",
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