An option to exclude files and directories implied by -r (recurse) option #1258
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Using -r option to recurse into directory will pick up all files and directories including those one might now want to load.
A solid example is lnav -r /var/log which will also load /var/log/journal logs but those are undesired to be loaded first because journal is better piped to lnav and secondly because it will significantly slow down loading of log files.
And unless I'm wrong journal entries are nothing but duplicate of already present and loaded files from /var/log
Describe the solution you'd like
An option to exclude files and directories when -r option is used
Describe alternatives you've considered
I'm not aware of any alternatives other than writing a long line of directories and files which to explicitly load.
If you know of a better method as a workaround please share!
Additional context
I think the option to exclude files or directories should not be limited to the use of the -r option because one might want to exclude certain files when not recursing.