What purpose does the Asterisk (*) serve in lint-staged config?

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I want to use lint-staged to run hooks only on staged files in a node.js project. The docs suggest adding the following code to the package.json file;

{ "lint-staged": { "*": "your-cmd" } }

I have also seen the following code elsewhere in another codebase;

"lint-staged": { "**/*": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown" }

What purpose does the asterisk(s) serve? I don't suppose it's simply a placeholder. Thanks for the help.

CertainPerformance · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-20 01:01:44Z

As the readme says, those are glob patterns.

"*": "your-cmd"

will match any file (* matches anything by definition)

"**/*": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown"

will match:

** - "≥ 0 characters crossing directory boundaries", followed by
/ - A directory boundary, followed by
* - Anything

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