Thank you for your feedback. Can you please give us some examples of actual (non-hypothetical) use cases for this?

@sharkdp Yes of course :)
I'm developing a package for sublime text, and I'm using your tool
https://github.com/Mister7F/Sublime-DirectoryFilter

I don't want to display a directory if one of the parent directory has matched the search :)

With the find tool, I can use the option prune, but as your tool is faster, I use it, and I prune the directory manually, in python.

Ok, let's try to implement this as a new flag. We can hide it from the short -h help text.

Hello. I'd like to take this if its available?

Clarification on behavior: is prune meant to be a flag to operate on <pattern>?
for example:

$ tree
.
├── bar
│   └── zap
│       ├── foo
│       └── zig
└── foo
    ├── bar
    └── foo

$ fd foo
bar/zap/foo
foo
foo/foo

$ fd --prune foo
bar/zap/foo
foo

Yes :) it should work like this (the tool should stop to explore sub-directories when the current directories has matched)

@std-odoo Maybe you could help out with the design decisions in #546?

I'm happy to see that this is in the works!

Thank you for your feedback. Can you please give us some examples of actual (non-hypothetical) use cases for this?

I have another use-case to share.
I tried to delete all the node_modules folders on my machine with fd, but found that due to needing a prune-like functionality I could not do this well, and so I had to fallback to using find.

For those unaware, a node_modules folder is a tree of packages, each with their own node_modules folders underneath. I wanted to delete all the node_modules folders in my home directory to save space, and fd was matching the subpackages as well, which means if I'd run -x rm -rf {} then it would have failed since a higher level directory could have been deleted before a lower level directory.
With prune this would not have been an issue.

Also, this is a common issue, common enough that there's a utility just for this: https://github.com/voidcosmos/npkill. But I would rather use fd for something like this, rather than a full-blown interactive UI.

🙂