New feature: Exclude all files and directories inside the 'exclude' directory in 'source'

build.sh

@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 #
 #  To use it, create a directory for your project (e.g. 'website'). Inside 'website', create
 #  two directories: 'source' (which holds your Markdown files) and 'output' (which holds the
-#  converted HTML.
+#  converted HTML. To exclude files from the conversion process, place them inside a directory
+#  named 'exclude' inside 'source'. This directory will not be copied over into 'output', and 
+#  any files inside it will not be converted.
 #
 #  In addition to these directories, three files are needed in 'website':
 #  1. 'header.html' - A header, which is prepended to every source file. Unfortunately, this must
@@ -74,6 +76,11 @@ setup_output_dir() {
 
 del_files_in_output() {
 	find "$BASE_PATH/output" -type f -name "*.md" -delete #Delete all .md files (which were copied over from 'source') in 'output'
+	# Delete the 'exclude' directory from the output folder.
+	# This folder contains markdown files which shouldn't be converted to HTML.
+	if [[ -d "${BASE_PATH}/output/exclude" ]]; then
+		rm -r "${BASE_PATH}/output/exclude"
+	fi
 }
 
 read_metadata() {
@@ -192,7 +199,8 @@ convert_file() {
 
 md_to_html() {
 #	Convert .md files from 'source' and place them into the correct locations into 'output'
-	local files=$(find "$BASE_PATH/source" -name "*.md")
+#	Exclude all files and folders inside the 'exclude' directory
+	local files=$(find "${BASE_PATH}/source" -not -path "${BASE_PATH}/source/exclude/*"  -name "*.md")
 
 #	Concurrently convert each document
 	for file in $files; do