Artifacts and glob pattern - confusion between simple and double asterisk / star

nvsvleclere October 24, 2018

Hi,

I have read the section here but it seems to apply in the "git" context and does not help me. In the artifact contact, if '*' does not match "/", does it mean that 'dist/*' match all files and not directories ? and "dist/**" does match everything files and subfolders ?

 

So I am confused with simple and double asterisk glob patterns (in particular in artificats context). What are the differences between these examples ?

1)

        artifacts:
          - dist/*/folder

2)

        artifacts:
          - dist/**/folder

3)

        artifacts:
          - dist/*

4)

        artifacts:
          - dist/**

 

Which ones do include hidden files/directories  ?

If I want to "artifact" a folder and all its content, can I just do ? :

        artifacts:
          - dist

 

(Bonus: Is it an "atlassian" glob pattern trick or is it following a standard ? )

 

Regards,

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Linette
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October 28, 2018

Hi Victor,

I have a basic little example pipeline that might help make things clearer here: https://bitbucket.org/lvoller/testing-things/src/fc5f1e247f835fc81dd73a8151c36207c74d8d4d/bitbucket-pipelines.yml

Essentially though:

  • a single asterisk will pick up any files in the folder (including hidden)
  • a double asterisk will pick up both files and directories (including hidden)

You could also use -  dist/*.js to only select .js files as artifacts to pass to the next step.

 

I hope that helps!

Linette
Atlassian Team
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October 28, 2018

oh, and in answer to your questions 1) and 2) the difference is how far through the directory structure you'll go.

the first example (dist/*/folder) could find

dist/test/folder

but not

dist/test/reports/folder

Where as dist/**/folder would find

dist/test/reports/folder

as it keeps going beyond the current directory.

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nvsvleclere October 29, 2018

Hi,

Thank you for your reply, it's well explained and very helpful.

Regards,

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