Can I match / ignore files in folders without knowing it's folder structure?

[ziontee113]

Thank you so much for the amazing project. And I apologize before hand if I'm doing a bad job asking my question.

Let's say we have this folder structure:

├── lua
│   └── portals
│       ├── core.lua
│       ├── init.lua
│       ├── utils
│       │   └── fmt.lua
│       └── utils.lua
└── tests
    ├── core
    │   └── core_spec.lua
    ├── minimal_init.lua
    └── utils
        ├── above_and_below_spec.lua
        ├── buffer_spec.lua
        └── treesitter_spec.lua

I can do rg "the_string_to_search" lua/ to search in lua folder only, or rg "the_string_to_search" -g "!lua/" to ignore that folder.

If I want to ignore lua/potals/utils folder, I'd have to do: rg "the_string_to_search" -g "!lua/portals/utils"
or rg "the_string_to_search" -g "!*/*/utils"

My question is: if I don't know beforehand the folder structure that leads to utils folder, or if the folder structure is too complex, I won't know how many */ to add to the command. Is there a way that I can achieve the same thing as rg "the_string_to_search" -g "!*/*/utils without knowing how many */ to add?

Thank you very much!

[ziontee113]

Hi, I think I've found the answer from:
#831
https://docs.rs/globset/0.3.0/globset/#syntax

I tried rg "the_string_to_search" -g "!**/utils/*.lua" and it seemed to work 😄

[BurntSushi]

Exactly! Nice find.