When searching for patterns in project with many directories and files using
ripgrep, it is easy to end up with an overwhelming amount of results. If you
know that a certain directory of results isn't of interest, you can exclude
that directory. This is done with the glob flag (-g) and the inverse (!)
operator.
Here is an example of just using the -g flag. This will find all matches of
the pattern within that directory.
$ rg 'some pattern' -g 'dir/'To instead exclude that directory and by extension search everywhere else, we
can invert the glob match with !.
$ rg 'some pattern' -g '!dir/'This says, find the pattern anywhere that is not in dir/.