Dropbox Ignore

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Bash command for ignore casual development folders

A simple line code that makes adding folders to the exclusion of Dropbox sync.

find `pwd` -type d -regex ".*\(node_modules\|temp\|tmp\|bower_components\|cache\)$" -prune -exec dropbox-cli exclude add {} \;

Enable Dropbox command line

With Dropbox Python Script

After your Dropbox properly installed, configure your dropbox.py file to enable dropbox-cli command line.

See how to.

In Ubuntu (easy way)

In Ubuntu, instead of using the dropbox.py, you can install the nautilus-dropbox metapackage.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox -y

This enable the ´dropbox´ command, and ours ignore script looks like this:

find `pwd` -type d -regex ".*\(node_modules\|temp\|tmp\|bower_components\|cache\)$" -prune -exec dropbox exclude add {} \;

Thanks for Vincent Voyer