Glob Patterns

Glob patterns are a type of wildcard matching for file names. They are used frequently in Visual Studio Code, including in some of the settings for this extension.

Basics

• * matches anything (0 or more characters) except for the directory separator
• ** matches anything (0 or more characters) including the directory separator
• ? matches a single character
• {abc,def} is used to create a list of matching patterns (this will match abc and def)
• [Aa] matches one of a list of characters (this will match A and a)
• [a-z] matches a range of characters (this will match any lower case letter)

Examples

To match all Python files, all PNG files and all WAV files, including those in any subdirectory:

{**/*.py,**/*.png,**/*.wav}

To include all files in the src directory:

src/**