Allow directories to be ignored with -I/IPattern
teddywing opened this issue · 0 comments
teddywing commented
Currently, the -I
flag and IPattern
option only ignore files with the given pattern. Directories matching the pattern remain in the tree.
Would it be possible to also ignore directories? I know this would break the existing API, so I'm not sure if there should be a new option for this, rather than change the existing behaviour.
The tree
command installed with Homebrew from http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/ does ignore directories in addition to files, as shown below:
$ mkdir -p rootdir/building/flowers rootdir/{road,ocean}
$ touch rootdir/building/b.txt rootdir/building/flowers/f.txt rootdir/road/r.txt rootdir/ocean/o.txt
$ tree rootdir/
rootdir/
├── building
│ ├── b.txt
│ └── flowers
│ └── f.txt
├── ocean
│ └── o.txt
└── road
└── r.txt
4 directories, 4 files
$ $GOPATH/src/github.com/a8m/tree/tree rootdir/
rootdir/
├── building
│ ├── b.txt
│ └── flowers
│ └── f.txt
├── ocean
│ └── o.txt
└── road
└── r.txt
4 directories, 4 files
$ tree -I building rootdir/
rootdir/
├── ocean
│ └── o.txt
└── road
└── r.txt
2 directories, 2 files
$ $GOPATH/src/github.com/a8m/tree/tree -I building rootdir/
rootdir/
├── building
│ ├── b.txt
│ └── flowers
│ └── f.txt
├── ocean
│ └── o.txt
└── road
└── r.txt
4 directories, 4 files
I'd be happy to work on this, but I'm not sure if it's something you want to add to the project. If so, I'd appreciate some guidance about how to handle backward compatibility.
Thanks!