diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
index 581f34c2ca..12ab199cbc 100644
--- a/examples/.gitignore
+++ b/examples/.gitignore
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-hello_world
-json
-links_scraper
-log
-news_fetcher
-rune
-terminal_control
-nbody
-spectral
-database/mysql
+/hello_world
+/json
+/links_scraper
+/log
+/news_fetcher
+/rune
+/terminal_control
+/nbody
+/spectral
+/database/mysql