[Feature request] Exclude directory option

[GaurangTandon]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I wish to search through all directories in ~ except a few directories. Those few directories have active projects that I know I am working on and I do not want to run npkill on them.

Describe the solution you'd like

Pass a list of exclude directories, something like npkill --exclude-dir ~/my-projects/* which should make sure that npkill doesn't try to search inside the directory ~/my-projects.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I haven't.

Additional context

Not necessary.

[NyaGarcia]

Great request :) It is actually one of the features in our TODO list, and will be available shortly. Thanks anyway for your suggestion!

[NyaGarcia]

This feature is now available in the newly released 🎆 0.6.0 version 🎆
You can exclude directories by using -E or --exclude options.

[pawel2105]

This feature is not working. I'm on v0.6.0 and each of the following 4 command variants:

npkill --exclude "/Users/pawel/Library/Caches/Yarn/*,"
npkill --exclude "/Users/pawel/Library/Caches/Yarn/*"
npkill --exclude "/Users/pawel/Library/Caches/Yarn"
npkill --exclude "/Users/pawel/Library/Caches/Yarn,"

Will still list directories like below:

/Users/pawel/Library/Caches/Yarn/v1/npm-fsevents-1.1.3-11f82318f5fe7bb2cd22965a108e9306208216d8/node_modules
/Users/pawel/Library/Caches/Yarn/v1/npm-fsevents-1.2.3-08292982e7059f6674c93d8b829c1e8604979ac0/node_modules

[muescha]

@pawel2105 you can only use a folder name, in your case the "Yarn"