Pre-Scan Options

Pre-Scan Options

--ignore <pattern>
 Ignore files matching <pattern>.

--ignore Option

In a scan, all files inside the directory specified as an input argument is scanned. But if there are some files which you don’t want to scan, the --ignore option can be used to do the same.

A sample usage:

./scancode --ignore *.java samples samples.json

Here, Scancode ignores files ending with .java, and continues with other files as usual.

Glob pattern matching is useful for excluding a group of files, by using patterns in their names. For more information on Glob pattern matching refer these resources: