Cannot exclude symbolic links from search about fzf HOT 9 CLOSED

fzf still seems to follow symbolic links.

Yes, that's the default.

   Directory traversal
       --walker=[file][,dir][,follow][,hidden]
              Determines the behavior of the built-in directory walker that is used when
              $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND is not set. The default value is file,follow,hidden.

              * file: Include files in the search result
              * dir: Include directories in the search result
              * hidden: Include and follow hidden directories
              * follow: Follow symbolic links

I also tried to add the folders to --walker-skip, but that still does not work.

And please provide the exact steps to reproduce the problem.

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Thanks for a very quick reply.

I add this to .zhsrc

export FZF_CTRL_T_OPTS="
  --walker-skip .git,node_modules,target,o_drev_da1943,analyse,batch,Dataudveksling,eg_source
  --preview 'bat -n --color=always {}'
  --bind 'ctrl-/:change-preview-window(down|hidden|)'"

When i pres CTRL + T i still get results for e.g. analyse in my results. the folder analyse is a symbolig link.

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Do you also have FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND? If the variable is defined, fzf will use it instead of its built-in walker.

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Sorry. It seems no to work either way

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Okay, I can see what's going on. --walker-skip is applied to directories, and currently, it is not applied to a "symlink" to a directory. I agree that this is confusing. I'll look into it.

Anyway, if you don't want fzf to follow symlinks, consider setting --walker instead of --walker-skip.

export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS='--walker file,hidden

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So that file is a list of folders that should be included? Think that will be hard to maintian.

But thanks for your reply. Cool if it can be implemented in a comming release.

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Directory traversal
--walker=[file][,dir][,follow][,hidden]
Determines the behavior of the built-in directory walker that is used when
$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND is not set. The default value is file,follow,hidden.

          * file: Include files in the search result
          * dir: Include directories in the search result
          * hidden: Include and follow hidden directories
          * follow: Follow symbolic links

No, file means walker should list "files", it's a type.

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Correct.

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