With the normal `grep` command there is an `--exclude` option (covered in detail here: [Use grep --exclude/--include syntax to not grep through certain files](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/221921/grep-exclude-include-syntax-do-not-grep-through-certain-files)) that lets you ignore specific files when you are grepping.

Ack's `--type` option takes care of 95% of the cases where you'd want to exclude files, but it doesn't (as far as I can tell) handle the case of excluding a specific file. I've got a compiled JS file that has the contents of every other JS file in it (on a single line), so every time I grep for *anything* I get back the entire contents of that giant compiled file.

I'd hate to have to give up on ack and go back to grep over this, but it is *really* annoying. Please, someone tell me there's a way to exclude specific files from ack searches.