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#30679 Regex for all folders named thumbs

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Latest post by on Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:17 CST

Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:53 CST

bettondesign
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Description of my issue:
Hi
I have been trying to set up a rule for RegEx Files and Directories Exclusion which will exclude all folders in the images directory and subdirectories called "thumbs".

So far I have got:
Exclude Directory: #images/(.*)thumbs$#

But this doesn't seem to be working. Do you have any further advice?
Thank you

Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:59 CST

tampe125
Hello,

we have some ready-to-use recipes for Regex. By combining them, I think you can use something like this:
#^images/(.*)thumbs#i

I think you should remove the $ symbol since I suspect the path during scanning has a trailing slash, invalidating the regex.
Please give it a try and let me know how it goes.

Davide Tampellini

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Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:17 CST

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Edited by on 2019-01-12 17:17 CST

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