npmignore .sh files in all but one directory

Question

I'd like to ignore all the .sh files in a project, except for the ones located in a particular directory, let's call the directory foo.

so we have:

project/
   bar.sh
   baz.sh
   foo/
     a.sh
     b.sh

I don't want to publish bar.sh and baz.sh to NPM, but I do want to publish a.sh and b.sh to NPM. It turns out I have a number of .sh files outside of the foo directory, and it would be more convenient to ignore all of them in one fell swoop.

What can I add to my .npmignore file that would accomplish this?

Answer 1

In the docs for .npmignore it states:

.npmignore files follow the same pattern rules as .gitignore files:

In which case you ignore all the .sh files (i.e. *.sh) then negate that pattern using the apostrophe ! and specify the folder name that you want to include. For example:

Example 1

# ignore all .sh files
*.sh

# include .sh files in the folder foo
!foo/*.sh

Using this configuration, (within the context of the example folder structure shown below), all these files are ignored: a.sh, b.sh, e.sh, f.sh

The following files are included/published: c.sh and d.sh.

Note: e.sh and f.sh are ignored too using this config as they're in a sub folder.

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Example 2

To also include/publish the .sh files in any sub folders of the folder foo then configure your .npmignore as follows:

# ignore all .sh files
*.sh

# include .sh files in the folder foo and any inside its sub folders
!foo/**/*.sh

Using this configuration, (within the context of the example folder structure shown below), only files: a.sh and b.sh are ignored. All other .sh files are published.

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Example folder structure

project
├── a.sh
├── b.sh
└── foo
    ├── baz
    │   ├── e.sh
    │   └── f.sh
    ├── c.sh
    └── d.sh