Removing files from the collection using patterns

[daliboris]

Enhancement

I didn't find an example for deleting a list of files using wildcards in the Readme, and maybe it's not implemented yet.

I tried wildcards in the path: xst remove /db/apps/%project%-data/data/dictionaries/*.xml

I also tried -i parameter of the upload command: xst remove -i "*.xml" /db/apps/%project%-data/data/dictionaries/

Both commands failed.

Alternatives

Only the full name of the document being removed worked: xst remove /db/apps/%project%-data/data/dictionaries/pages_157_159.xml

[line-o]

You are right @daliboris this is not implemented yet. Globbing can only work when the path argument(s) are quoted. At least on linux shells this would otherwise lead to errors because the glob would not match any files on the local filesystem. Therefore --include and --exclude are the safer options.

[line-o]

Remove all JavaScript resources in a collection

xst rm /db/apps/myapp --include "*.js"

Remove all files but JavaScript resources in a collection

xst rm /db/apps/myapp --exclude "*.js"

Remove everything recursively that starts with "temp-" (non-empty collections will not be removed)

xst rm -r /db/apps/myapp --include "temp-*"

This might warrant the addition of a --dry-run option to the rm command due to the damage that one might inflict on a db.