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Sid Vishnoi
Sid Vishnoi

Reputation: 1318

node glob pattern for files not in folders starting with underscore

I've a directory structure as follows:

source
├── _assets
│   ├── css
│   └── js
├── _config.yaml
├── downloads
│   ├── hello2.txt
│   └── hello.txt
├── hello_world
│── robots.txt
└── favicon.ico

I'm using the node package glob to list files that follow a certain pattern. I want to list all files that are not in a folder whose name starts with an underscore ![_*]. The patterns I've tried include various combinations of 

const pattern1 = `${sourceDirPath}/!(_*)**`
const pattern2 = `${sourceDirPath}/!(_*)/**`

pattern1 only gives me files like [source/robots.txt, source/favicon.ico] whereas pattern2 only gives me files like [source/downloads/hello.txt, source/downloads/hello2.txt]

Can anyone give me some hint which pattern will let me have files from both patterns? Or do I have to look for both patterns and then merge the list?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2414

Answers (1)

Sid Vishnoi
Sid Vishnoi

Reputation: 1318

Solved by using ignore

const pattern = `${sourceDirPath}/**`;
const ignorePattern = `${sourceDirPath}/_*/**`;
glob(pattern, {
  ignore: [ignorePattern],
  nodir: true,
}, callback);

Upvotes: 2

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