file-ignore not ignoring properly

[johlym]

I followed #177 first to make sure I wasn't doing something dumb but I'm still at a loss, here.

I'm running:

htmlproofer _site --allow-hash-href --check-html --disable-external --alt-ignore --file-ignore /bar/ --log-level debug

against this folder structure:

_site
  |- foo
    |- bat
    |- car
  |- bar
    |- baz
    |- bow

I want everything in /_site/foo to be checked, but to skip /_site/bar altogether. It seems to want to check bar anyway.

Based on what I read in #177, this should be working. What am I missing?

[gjtorikian]

Could you try

 --file-ignore '/bar/'

❓

[johlym]

Tried that, same result :/

Actual command:

htmlproofer _site --allow-hash-href --check-html --disable-external --alt-ignore --file-ignore '/kb/' --log-level debug

but I'm still see everything within _site/kb/ being both checked and showing up like in this sample output (there are hundreds of files and folders in this folder, in reality):

Checking scriptcheck on _site/kb/index.html ...
Checking linkcheck on _site/kb/index.html ...
Checking htmlcheck on _site/kb/index.html ...
Checking imagecheck on _site/kb/index.html ...

...

- _site/kb/index.html
  *  75:10: ERROR: Unexpected end tag : ul (line 75)

And for the record:

gem list html-proofer

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

html-proofer (3.7.4)

[gjtorikian]

Hmm, I tested this locally, and this is dumb if this is the fix, but what happens if you swap the arguments, like:

htmlproofer --allow-hash-href --check-html --disable-external --alt-ignore --file-ignore '/kb/' --log-level debug _site

[johlym]

Interesting, this introduced a new but not desired behavior:

htmlproofer --allow-hash-href --check-html --disable-external --alt-ignore --file-ignore '/kb/' --log-level debug _site
Running ["ScriptCheck", "ImageCheck", "LinkCheck", "HtmlCheck"] on /kb/ on *.html...


Ran on 0 files!


HTML-Proofer finished successfully.

pulling --file-ignore '/kb/' restores it to normal behavior, including scanning the directory I don't want.

[norristh]

I had the same problem. The fix at Stack Overflow works for me: escape forward slashes.

I tried it with a regular expression like '#/bar/#' to be cleaner, but it didn't work to exclude bar. But this did:

--file_ignore "/\/bar\//"

[mcbanderson]

Had this same issue when trying to scan everything in my _site directory, but exclude files in _site/node_modules. Adding double quotes around the specified directory worked for me using version 3.10.2:
htmlproofer ./_site --allow-hash-href --check-favicon --check-html --disable-external --file-ignore "/node_modules/"

[gjtorikian]

Thanks for that. I already had this documented in the README: https://github.com/gjtorikian/html-proofer#special-cases-for-the-command-line

Glad that you've found a solution!