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Gumaa

Excluding certain directories when using "walk"

Hello, I'm writing a script that should crawl through a directory and search for a given text inside of these files. I'm having trouble understanding the documentation about walk options, specifically the skip option.

It says:
skip: RegExp[] = undefined

List of regular expression patterns used to filter entries. If specified, entries matching the patterns specified by this option are excluded.


But it is enigmatic - what exactly is being checked? The name of a file? Path of the file? Absolute path? Relative path? It does not say.

If you are wondering I'm doing something like this:

  const iter = walkSync(projectFolder, {
    skip: [
      /node_modules/,
      /.git/,
      /static/,
      /lang/,
    ],
  });

  for (const entry of iter) {
    if (entry.isFile) {
      const content = Deno.readTextFileSync(entry.path);
      checkContent(content);
    }
  }


So I just provided the name of a folder that I want to ignore. But I'm not sure if this is the correct approach or if this might ignore some extra files that I did not intent to ignore.
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