Directories can contain square brakets

[floatdrop]

This is continuation of issue, started in gulp-watch. Minimatch translates [ and ] as class pattern, but in fact you can execute mkdir such[dir] and create folder with name that includes brackets. Seems like minimatch is lacking of ability to escape square brackets, because writing \[ does not help.

[yocontra]

👍 You should be able to escape any minimatch special characters

[tunnckoCore]

+1 Mm, yea. With single \[ doesn't help, with \\[ also, because splits by \\ for windows paths...

[ruifortes]

+1

[phated]

@isaacs I notice some commits that relate to this. Is it fixed?

[tunnckoCore]

@phated yea, it seems it is fixed and work with double slash for escaping. cuz yesterday i tested it gulpjs/gulp#1027
but yea, some response also would be good.

[srcspider]

@phated assuming this is the same that gulp is currently using; it's not fixed in gulp 3.9.0

[phated]

Sorry, wrong thread :/

[ericsciple]

fyi - i've found [[] works as a substitute for escaping [ on Windows

[isaacs]

In latest 3.0, you can escape and set allowWindowsEscape:true to the options.

In v5 and up, \ is no longer treated as a path separator in patterns, so you must use / in patterns on windows, and can escape to your hearts' delight.