.net - C# Searching for files and folders except in certain folders

Question

Is there any way to exclude certain directories from SearchOption using LINQ command like this

string path = "C:SomeFolder";

var s1 = Directory.GetFiles(path , "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

var s2 = Directory.GetDirectories(path , "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

The path consists of Sub1 and Sub2 Folders with certain files in it. I need to exclude them from directory search.

Thanks

This Worked:

string[] exceptions = new string[] { "c:\SomeFolder\sub1",
"c:\SomeFolder\sub2" };

var s1 = Directory.GetFiles("c:\x86", "*.*",
SearchOption.AllDirectories).Where(d => exceptions.All(e =>
!d.StartsWith(e)));

This helped with Exceptions

Answer 1

No there isn't as far as I know. But you could use very simple LINQ to do that in a single line.

var s1 = Directory.GetFiles(path , "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories).Where(d => !d.StartsWith("<EXCLUDE_DIR_PATH>")).ToArray();

You can easily combine multiple exclude DIRs too.