Grunt Globbing patterns

Question

Grunt Globbing patterns

What is the pattern needed to achieve the following.

Match all the html file in the directory .tmp
Match all the html file in .tmp/views and all subdirectories of it (recursively to any depth)

This is to register livereload task in Grunt file.

I tried few varieties of below config. It matches all files in .tmp, but not recursively in .tmp/views

Also tried,

 '.tmp/{,views/**/}*.html'

but the same result.

 livereload: {
                    options: {
                        livereload: LIVERELOAD_PORT
                    },
                    files: [
                        '.tmp/{,views/**}*.html'
                    ]
                }

javascript
node.js
gruntjs

Answer 1

You should be able to get the matching you need by passing two elements in the files array:

files: [
    '.tmp/*.html',
    '.tmp/views/**/*.html',
]

This will match any .html files directly below .tmp/, as well as any .html file in .tmp/views/, whether directly under that directory or deeper (the /**/ part).