Excluding *.md files withought preventing html files from being in their place

Help
1

As far as I know jekyll exclude parameter in config is for preventing some files from build folder. I have some custom *.md files that i dont want in output. however when I exclude them, I also see no html file of my pages and posts in output. Very strange for me.

Any Idea?

2

can you give more info? why are they there if you don’t want them? how did you try to exclude them?

3

They are there for a reason. They contain some data and included to other md files.

I just don’t want them to be in the output (public folder).

I have excluded my files like this:

exclude:
  - "*.sh"
  - .jekyll-cache
  - "*.json"
  - "*.md"
4

The reason is because you’re using a wildcard to exclude all .md files.
To exclude only some .md files, list them explicitly or use a pattern to identify them properly:

exclude:
  - Gemfile
  - node_modules/
  - README.md
  - "downloads/**/*.md"