Double-asterisk

by Vitaly, Friday, September 21st, 2018

New versions of Copy Manager and ZIP Manager support the double asterisks in source patterns.

The double asterisk (**) followed by backslash (\) will cause to recursive inclusion of files from all subdirectories.

Example. Directory structure:

path\f1\
path\f1\a1\
path\e2\
path\e2\a1\
path\e2\b2\

Pattern path\*\*.txt matches *.txt files in subdiretories path\f1\ and path\e2\ (but NOT in path\, path\f1\a1, path\e2\a1\, path\e2\b2\).

Pattern path\**\*.txt matches *.txt files in path\ and in all subdirectories (path\f1\, path\f1\a1\, path\e2\, etc.).

Pattern path\f**\*.txt matches *.txt files in all subdirectories of path\ starting with f: path\f1\, path\f1\a1\ (but NOT in path\, path\e2\, etc.).

Pattern path\**\a1\*.txt matches *.txt files in path\f1\a1\ and path\e2\a1\.

Tags: Double-asterisk