Question

Anyone know how to ignore the build folder when doing a ‘Find in Projects’ on NetBeans (v6.9.1).

Currently the Search results pane shows all results from src folders but also those from the build folder so if your project contains a lot of JSP files for example, many results are duplicated…

Answer 1

I think I’ve figured out how to ignore the build folder of projects when doing a ‘Find in Projects’ in NetBeans 6.9.1:

1. Go to Tools->Options-Miscellaneous.
2. Click the Files tab.

3. In Files Ignored by the IDE, edit the Ignored Files Pattern
   regular expression and include the build folder. For example, on
   my system I simply added build thus:

   ^(CVS|SCCS|vssver.?\.scc|#.*#|%.*%|_svn|build)$|~$|^\.(?!htaccess$).*$
   

4. Click OK to save the options and close the dialog.

(Nerd Note: Took me exactly 1 year to the day to figure this out!)