How to ignore specific files/folders from eslint within NX workspaces (nrwl)

Question

I have a huge project that we want to convert from tslint to eslint. Because its so big we want to do this in small chunks which is why we want to be able to ignore folders. Does anyone know how to do this?

I have tried to add "[exclude":["my main app here"]

However when I add this exclude to the workspace.json I get an error "exclude is not found in schema" ?

I am not sure if this is the correct way to ignore these files?

any help is greatly appreciated :)