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What does the following file path mean?
$(Services_Jobs_Drop_Path)\**\*.config The variable just holds some path, nothing interesting. I'm a lot more concerned, what the hell the ** mean. Any ideas?
P.S. The following path is used in msbuild scripts, if it helps.
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wildcard characters to specify a group of files as inputs for a build instead of listing each file separately. The ? wildcard character matches a single character. The * wildcard character matches zero or more characters. The ** wildcard character sequence matches a partial path.
Double Asterisk ( ** ) matches zero or more characters across multiple segments. It is used for globbing files that are in nested directories.
They indicate that the path should be passed to the system with minimal modification, which means that you cannot use forward slashes to represent path separators, or a period to represent the current directory, or double dots to represent the parent directory.
You can use the wildcard (*) sign to indicate a single component between two forward slashes in a base path. Do NOT use wildcards to indicate the following: One or more forward slashes.
\**\ This pattern is often used in Copy Task for recursive folder tree traversal. Basically it means that all files with extension config would be processed from the all subdirectories of $(Services_Jobs_Drop_Path) path.
MSDN, Using Wildcards to Specify Items:
You can use the **, *, and ? wildcard characters to specify a group of files as inputs for a build instead of listing each file separately.
- The ? wildcard character matches a single character.
- The * wildcard character matches zero or more characters.
- The ** wildcard character sequence matches a partial path.
MSDN, Specifying Inputs with Wildcards
To include all .jpg files in the Images directory and subdirectories Use the following Include attribute:
Include="Images\**\*.jpg"
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