Excluding files directories from Gulp task

Question

I have a gulp rjs task that concatenates and uglifies all my custom  JS files  any non vendor libraries    What i am trying to do  is exclude some files directories from this task  controllers and directives    Heres my tree    - application     - resources       - js         main js         - vendor             - jquery             - modernzr             - angular         - controllers             - controller1             - controller2             - controller3         - directives             - directives1             - directives2             - directives3         - widgets             - widget1             - widget2             - widget3             - widget4         - modules             - modules1             - modules2             - modules3             - modules4   Here my gulp js  dir         app          application       dest         dest       config         src            js  dir app     resources js             dest            js  dir dest     resources js            gulp task  rjs   function            rjs               baseUrl  config src js              out   main js               name   main               mainConfigFile  config src js     main js               exclude     jquery    angular                                pipe prod   uglify   mangle  false  outSourceMap  true  compress    drop console  true        gutil noop             pipe gulp dest config dest js            pipe filesize             pipe dev   connect reload     gutil noop

User · Accepted Answer

Quick answer On src  you can always specify files to ignore using  quot   quot   Example  you want to exclude all   min js files on your js folder and subfolder  gulp src   js      js     js      min js     You can do it as well for individual files  Expanded answer  Extracted from gulp documentation   gulp src globs   options   Emits files matching provided glob or an array of globs  Returns a stream of Vinyl files that can be piped to plugins   glob refers to node-glob syntax or it can be a direct file path  So  looking to node-glob documentation we can see that it uses the minimatch library to do its matching  On minimatch documentation  they point out the following   if the pattern starts with a   character  then it is negated   And that is why using   symbol will exclude files   directories from a gulp task

User · Answer

Gulp uses micromatch under the hood for matching globs  so if you want to exclude any of the  min js files  you can achieve the same by using an extended globbing feature like this   src   js        min  js     Basically what it says is  grab everything at any level inside of js that doesn t end with   min js

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