Exclude some notebooks from execution through myst.yml

[amal-ghamdi]

Hi Jupyter book team,

In Jupyter book 1 I was able to exclude certain notebooks from being executed by the following settings in the _config.py file:

execute:
  execute_notebooks: cache
  exclude_patterns:
    - 'demo*'
    - 'sketch*'

Is there a way to do than in myst.yml file? (Without updating individual notebook files header?)

Thank you!

[mforbes]

Related to this, there is some discussion in the documentation about generally excluding files, but there is no reference to the syntax supported by this section. What does * mean compared to **? Why are some examples quoted but others are not?

I don't think this helps the OP since this will exclude these files completely.