diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index 4dbe547e0..411ede672 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -833,6 +833,8 @@ pub enum HyperlinkWhen {
 // so we have to use hand-rolled parsing for exec and exec-batch
 pub struct Exec {
     pub command: Option<CommandSet>,
+    pub filter_command: Option<CommandSet>,
+    pub reject_command: Option<CommandSet>,
 }
 
 impl clap::FromArgMatches for Exec {
@@ -847,7 +849,21 @@ impl clap::FromArgMatches for Exec {
             })
             .transpose()
             .map_err(|e| clap::Error::raw(ErrorKind::InvalidValue, e))?;
-        Ok(Exec { command })
+        let filter_command = matches
+            .get_occurrences::<String>("filter")
+            .map(CommandSet::new)
+            .transpose()
+            .map_err(|e| clap::Error::raw(ErrorKind::InvalidValue, e))?;
+        let reject_command = matches
+            .get_occurrences::<String>("reject")
+            .map(CommandSet::new)
+            .transpose()
+            .map_err(|e| clap::Error::raw(ErrorKind::InvalidValue, e))?;
+        Ok(Exec {
+            command,
+            filter_command,
+            reject_command,
+        })
     }
 
     fn update_from_arg_matches(&mut self, matches: &ArgMatches) -> clap::error::Result<()> {
@@ -923,6 +939,47 @@ impl clap::Args for Exec {
                      "
                 ),
         )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("filter")
+                .action(ArgAction::Append)
+                .long("filter")
+                .num_args(1..)
+                .allow_hyphen_values(true)
+                .value_terminator(";")
+                .value_name("cmd")
+                .help("Filter results by running a command; keep entry if command exits 0")
+                .long_help(
+                    "Execute a command for each search result and only include the result \
+                     if the command exits with status 0. All positional arguments following \
+                     --filter are part of the command (terminated by ';').\n\
+                     The same placeholders as --exec are supported: '{}', '{/}', '{//}', '{.}', '{/.}'.\n\n\
+                     Example:\n\n  \
+                       - Find files containing 'TODO':\n\n      \
+                           fd -t f --filter grep -q TODO {}\n\n  \
+                       - Find non-empty directories:\n\n      \
+                           fd -t d --filter test -n \"$(ls -A {})\"\
+                    "
+                ),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("reject")
+                .action(ArgAction::Append)
+                .long("reject")
+                .num_args(1..)
+                .allow_hyphen_values(true)
+                .value_terminator(";")
+                .value_name("cmd")
+                .help("Filter results by running a command; exclude entry if command exits 0")
+                .long_help(
+                    "Execute a command for each search result and exclude the result \
+                     if the command exits with status 0 (inverse of --filter).\n\
+                     The same placeholders as --exec and --filter are supported.\n\n\
+                     Example:\n\n  \
+                       - Find files that are NOT symlinks:\n\n      \
+                           fd --reject test -L {}\
+                    "
+                ),
+        )
     }
 
     fn augment_args_for_update(cmd: Command) -> Command {
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 708a99333..240f26bff 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ pub struct Config {
     /// If a value is supplied, each item found will be used to generate and execute commands.
     pub command: Option<Arc<CommandSet>>,
 
+    /// If supplied, run this command for each match; only include results where it exits 0.
+    pub filter_command: Option<Arc<CommandSet>>,
+
+    /// If supplied, run this command for each match; exclude results where it exits 0.
+    pub reject_command: Option<Arc<CommandSet>>,
+
     /// Maximum number of search results to pass to each `command`. If zero, the number is
     /// unlimited.
     pub batch_size: usize,
diff --git a/src/exec/mod.rs b/src/exec/mod.rs
index c22e0bd2a..6a1e34dc6 100644
--- a/src/exec/mod.rs
+++ b/src/exec/mod.rs
@@ -90,6 +90,29 @@ impl CommandSet {
         execute_commands(commands, OutputBuffer::new(null_separator), buffer_output)
     }
 
+    /// Run the command for a given path and return true if it exits with status 0.
+    /// Output is suppressed (redirected to /dev/null).
+    pub fn matches_filter(&self, input: &Path, path_separator: Option<&str>) -> bool {
+        for template in &self.commands {
+            match template.generate(input, path_separator) {
+                Ok(mut cmd) => {
+                    cmd.stdout(Stdio::null());
+                    cmd.stderr(Stdio::null());
+                    match cmd.status() {
+                        Ok(status) => {
+                            if !status.success() {
+                                return false;
+                            }
+                        }
+                        Err(_) => return false,
+                    }
+                }
+                Err(_) => return false,
+            }
+        }
+        true
+    }
+
     pub fn execute_batch<I>(&self, paths: I, limit: usize, path_separator: Option<&str>) -> ExitCode
     where
         I: Iterator<Item = PathBuf>,
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 80e380fe9..263dfd929 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ fn construct_config(mut opts: Opts, pattern_regexps: &[String]) -> Result<Config
     };
     let command = extract_command(&mut opts, colored_output)?;
     let has_command = command.is_some();
+    let filter_command = opts.exec.filter_command.take();
+    let reject_command = opts.exec.reject_command.take();
 
     Ok(Config {
         case_sensitive,
@@ -314,6 +316,8 @@ fn construct_config(mut opts: Opts, pattern_regexps: &[String]) -> Result<Config
             .as_deref()
             .map(crate::fmt::FormatTemplate::parse),
         command: command.map(Arc::new),
+        filter_command: filter_command.map(Arc::new),
+        reject_command: reject_command.map(Arc::new),
         batch_size: opts.batch_size,
         exclude_patterns: opts.exclude.iter().map(|p| String::from("!") + p).collect(),
         ignore_files: std::mem::take(&mut opts.ignore_file),
diff --git a/src/walk.rs b/src/walk.rs
index b37cc835e..5a78b034d 100644
--- a/src/walk.rs
+++ b/src/walk.rs
@@ -607,6 +607,20 @@ impl WorkerState {
                     }
                 }
 
+                // Apply --filter: only include entries where the command exits 0.
+                if let Some(ref filter_cmd) = config.filter_command
+                    && !filter_cmd.matches_filter(entry_path, config.path_separator.as_deref())
+                {
+                    return WalkState::Continue;
+                }
+
+                // Apply --reject: exclude entries where the command exits 0.
+                if let Some(ref reject_cmd) = config.reject_command
+                    && reject_cmd.matches_filter(entry_path, config.path_separator.as_deref())
+                {
+                    return WalkState::Continue;
+                }
+
                 if config.is_printing()
                     && let Some(ls_colors) = &config.ls_colors
                 {