How To Use Glob Pattern In Paths?

Undetstanding Glob Pattern and How To Use it In Paths?

Glob Pattern Overview

Glob patterns are widely used to match addresses in Unix-based systems. They utilize specific meta characters to define portions of an address:

  • ? : Represents any single character.
  • * : Matches any sequence of characters, including an empty string.
  • […] : Restricts the match to characters inside the brackets. You can specify a range of characters, such as a-z. To include the hyphen as a character, place it after a character. For example: [abc-].
  • […!] : Matches any character except those within the brackets.
  • **: matches with all sub-branche and any path after /.

Important Notes

  • Glob patterns in the new version of VergeCloud Security are not case-sensitive.
  • When considering the common format of <scheme>://<hostname>/<path> for URLs, the pattern matches only the <hostname>/<path> part, ignoring the /<scheme> portion.

Example: How Glob Patterns Match Paths

Glob PatternMatchesDoes Not Match
example.com/**Any path within example.com (not its subdomains)
*example.comAny subdomain of example.com
example.com/test*example.com/test
example.com/tests
example.com/TeSt
example.com/atest
example.com/test/icon.png
example.com/assets/**/*.jpgexample.com/assets/icon.jpg
example.com/assets/images/bg.jpg
example.com/assets/images/icons/ok.jpg
example.com/assets/icon.png
api.example.com/v?api.example.com/v1
api.example.com/v2
api.example.com/v
api.example.com/v1/items
api.example.com/v[0-9]/**api.example.com/v1
api.example.com/v1/items
api.example.com/v
api.example.com/va


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