GruntJS - Exclude files from the watch

Question

how to exclude certain files from a directory from watched. for eg I have a stylesheets folder I am watching for *.css and create a *.min.css using cssmin. But it keeps going in a loop as the folder watched has a new/changed *.min.css(ending in css).

    'stylesheet-css':
        files: ['public/stylesheets/*.css']
        tasks:['cssmin:stylesheet-css']

I tried couple of things..

'stylesheet-css':
    files: [ '!(public/stylesheets/*.min.css)']  # any thing other than .min.css
    tasks:['cssmin:stylesheet-css']

doesn't seem to work

Here is one.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15199092/configure-grunt-copy-task-to-exclude-files-folders — Marutha, Jan 06 '14 at 03:40
Have you tried !public/stylesheets/*.min.css ? Without round braces. — msapkal, Jan 06 '14 at 05:35
@MaheshSapkal - yes...doesn't pick up any changes not even the .css ones as well — coool, Jan 06 '14 at 14:03

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '14 at 14:22

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You need to specify the files you want, then the files you don't want (both sets), so something like:

'stylesheet-css':
    files: ['public/stylesheets/*.css', '!public/stylesheets/*.min.css']
    tasks:['cssmin:stylesheet-css']

For reference, see Grunt globbing patterns.

answered Jan 06 '14 at 14:22

Jordan Kasper

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I tried it previously. It was not working. but now it seems to. Thanks – coool Jan 06 '14 at 14:40

GruntJS - Exclude files from the watch

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