diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 266cb52..63fd5a2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ This bash script reads a list of search strings from a file, searches for these
 
 ## Usage
 
-To use this script, you need to call it with the path to the directory you want to search as an argument. For example:
+To use this tools, 
+1. Clone this project or download our last relase
+2. call scan.sh with the path option (-p) to the directory you want to search as an argument. 
+For example:
 
 ```bash
-bash scan.sh /var/www/html
+bash scan.sh -p /var/www/html
 ```
 
 In this example, the script will search for the strings in the `/var/www/html` directory and its subdirectories.
diff --git a/exclude_files.txt b/exclude_files.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..af7be79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exclude_files.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+*-log-*
+*.log
+log-*
+*.log.*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/exclude_paths.txt b/exclude_paths.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cbc4131
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exclude_paths.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+./cache/*
+./upload/*
+*.hg/*
+*.git/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scan.sh b/scan.sh
index 5a14711..4309d36 100644
--- a/scan.sh
+++ b/scan.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,28 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Check if an argument was provided
-if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
-    echo "Usage: $0 path"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# Store the argument into a variable
-path=$1
+exclude_paths=()
+
+while (( "$#" )); do
+  case "$1" in
+    -p|--path)
+      path="$2"
+      shift 2
+      ;;
+    -e|--exclude-path)
+      exclude_paths+=("$2")
+      shift 2
+      ;;
+    --)
+      shift
+      break
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+done
 
 # Read the file list.txt and store each line into the array search_strings
 readarray -t search_strings < list.txt
@@ -65,12 +80,24 @@ if [ ${#unique_grep_results[@]} -ne 0 ]; then
   done
 fi
 
+while IFS= read -r line
+do
+  # Adds each path to the exclude variable
+  exclude_paths="$exclude_paths -not -path '$line/*'"
+done < exclude_paths.txt
+
+while IFS= read -r line
+do
+  # Adds each path to the exclude variable
+  exclude_files="$exclude_files -not -name '$line/*'"
+done < exclude_files.txt
+
 echo "==================================================================================================="
 echo "writeable folder list:"
 
-find $path -type d -perm /u=w,g=w,o=w
+find $path -type d -perm /u=w,g=w,o=w $exclude_paths
 
 echo "==================================================================================================="
 echo "writeable file list:"
 
-find $path -type f -perm /u=w,g=w,o=w
\ No newline at end of file
+find $path -type f -perm /u=w,g=w,o=w $exclude_paths $exclude_files
\ No newline at end of file