# File Exclude

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### Prerequisite

* Must have an online scan either from UI or CLI.

### Step 1 : Scan UI

Once scans are finished, we can go to the UI. There is a feature to exclude file paths from the project tree if developers don’t want to scan those via Exclude File Path. To do that, start a scan in UI.

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Once the scan finishes.The interface will be as follows

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### Step 2 : Exclude Path

We now exclude a path which is similar to the following picture.

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### Step 3: Re-run Scan

Now re-ran the scan to see if /apps/ path is excluded from next scan

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Now we cannot get any thing from the path (/apps/) which we excluded.


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