Title: negative filter pattern
Last modified: January 22, 2018

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# negative filter pattern

 *  Resolved [bypr.nils](https://wordpress.org/support/users/byprnils/)
 * (@byprnils)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-negative-filter-pattern/)
 * For when I only want to duplicate the theme folder, or the upload folder, or…
 * Would work like this, similar to gitignore:
 * once exclamation mark is used everything else is ignored
 * !/wp-content/themes/mytheme
    !/wp-content/uploads

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-negative-filter-pattern/#post-9889892)
 * Thanks for the feedback! We’ll add it to our backlog to investigate.

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