I'm currently trying to add gitignore to a json file that sits inside of two bracketed folders and one regular folder. I have tried multiple things to gitignore the file but it doesn't seem to work.

I've only been able to gitignore one bracketed file, is there a way to ignore a file that sits within multiple bracketed folders? [paid-resources]/[snipes]/plants/plants.json

CodePudding user response：

[ and ] are special characters in .gitignore as they're part of fnmatch/glob syntax; see the section File Name Patterns in man sh. As they're special they must be escaped to be used literally. So try this pattern in .gitignore:

**/\[*\]/\[*\]/*

** start in any subdirectory;
\[, \] — interpret [ and ] literally;
/\[*\]/\[*\]/ — two "bracketed" directories, one inside the other