How to exclude all directories except one?

[dshemin]

I have a directory with bunch of translation files like

/de_DE
/el_GR
/en_US
and etc.

I want to exclude all files except en_US. Of course I can specify them all in ignorePaths section, but can I do it better?

[Jason3S]

@dshemin,

Are you asking about command line or configuration?

Command Line

Exclude them:

cspell --exclude "de_DE/**" --exclude "el_GR/**" "**"

Include Only en_US

cspell "en_US/**"

Configuration

There are three places that impact which files are checked:

1. files -- to only include the files you want.
   cspell.config.yaml

   files:
       - docs/en_US/**

2. ignorePaths - to exclude the files you do not want.
   cspell.config.yaml

   ignorePaths:
       - docs/de_DE/**
       - docs/el_GR/**

3. Overrides - to tell the spell checkers to treat these files differently. Note: overrides are applied after the list of files have been collected.
   cspell.config.yaml

   overrides:
       - filename: docs/**
         enable: false
       - filename: docs/en_US/**
         enable: true

You can also use overrides to have cspell use a different dictionary or language locale.

Needed dictionaries:

• @cspell/dict-el - npm
• @cspell/dict-de-de - npm

Example: cspell.json

    "import": [
        "@cspell/dict-de-de/cspell-ext.json",
        "@cspell/dict-el/cspell-ext.json"
    ],
    "overrides": [
        {
            "filename": "**/de_DE/**",
            "language": "en,de"
        },
        {
            "filename": "**/el_GR/**",
            "language": "en,el"
        }
    ]

[dshemin]

I'm talking about configuration. Let me explain a little bit more about my issue.
I have a directory with translation located in I10n with the next structure:

I10n/
    de_DE/
    el_GR/
    en_US/

I want to exclude all files from the I10n except files located in the en_US directory. As far as I understand I can write the next config to achieve that:

files:
    - I10n/en_US/**

ignorePaths:
    - I10n/***

I'm right?

[Jason3S]

After writing the response, I realized you might be trying to do the following:

ignorePaths:
  - "docs/**"
  - "!docs/en_US/**"

That is not supported by the glob library. See: Does not match for negative ignore · Issue #409 · isaacs/node-glob.

[Jason3S]

@dshemin,

Using overrides will do what you want:

files: 
    - I10n/**
overrides:
    - filename: I10n/**
      enable: false
    - filename: I10n/en_US/**
      enable: true

[dshemin]

Thanks! I will try it.

[Jason3S]

Note: overrides are applied in order. So, reversing the order of the overrides will not work.

[Jason3S]

This also works:

files:
  - I10n/**
overrides:
  - filename:
      - I10n/**
      - '!I10n/en_US/**'
    enable: false

[dshemin]

Is the files property required in the last example?

[Jason3S]

Is the files property required in the last example?

No it isn't.

[Jason3S]

I'm going to close this for now. If something is not working as you expect, please feel free to create a new issue and refer to this one.

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