diff --git a/docker/owlbot/java/bin/format_source.sh b/docker/owlbot/java/bin/format_source.sh
index 48adb4a5f..eb82eb97d 100755
--- a/docker/owlbot/java/bin/format_source.sh
+++ b/docker/owlbot/java/bin/format_source.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ set -e
 
 # Find all the java files relative to the current directory and format them
 # using google-java-format
-list="$(find . -name '*.java' )"
+list="$(find . -name '*.java' -not -path ".*/samples/snippets/generated/**/*" )"
 tmpfile=$(mktemp)
 
 for file in $list;
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ done
 
 cat $tmpfile | xargs java -jar /owlbot/google-java-format.jar --replace
 
-rm $tmpfile
\ No newline at end of file
+rm $tmpfile