Filenames with multiple . are truncated

[jefferose]

I ran this plugin for the first time and it seems to work well, except for this.

Folder contains jquery.ui.datepicker.css and jquery.ui.timepicker.css - upon completion, I end up with a file called jquery.min.css and the content is that of the datepicker (minified).

It seems that longer names are being truncated at the first . when output files are created.

[tkellen]

The solution for this right now is to use rename in conjunction with expand to only strip the first segment of the file extension.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16697344/configure-grunt-file-name-matching-for-files-with-multiple-dots

In a future version of grunt we will support a declarative option for controlling whether the full extension or the first segment should be replaced.

/ref: gruntjs/grunt#979

[stefanr]

Since this is obviously a desired behavior I use something like the following in my Gruntfile:

var rename = {
  ext: function(ext) {
    return function (dest, src) {
      return dest + "/" + src.replace(/(\.[^\/\.]*)?$/, ext);
    }
  },
};

... and:

files: [{
  expand: true,
  [...]
  rename: rename.ext(".min.js"),
}],

Maybe it's useful for someone.

Stefan

[ahmedelgabri]

@stefanr Thanks, that was helpful.

[langdonx]

Thanks @stefanr, surprised this wasn't the default behavior.

[jamesplease]

Hey folks you should be using extdot nowadays

[langdonx]

Nice, glad I replied. The issue was pretty difficult to Google for and as you may know, reading the whole F'ing manual is quiet costly on time. This and an SO question that had the same answer was all I could find.

Thanks for the input!

[jamesplease]

np @langdonx