ignoreFiles not working in Windows

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I’ve used the following ignoreFiles setting in OSX to help improve Hugo’s speed - it works great for local dev:

ignoreFiles = [“post/2003”,“post/2004”,“post/2005”,“post/2006”,“post/2007”,“post/2008”,“post/2009”,“post/2010”,“post/2011”,“post/2012”,“post/2013”,“post/2014”]

When I tested on Windows, I noticed it didn’t work. I figured it was perhaps the slashes, so I added to the end of my list:

“post\2003”,“post\2004”

just as a quick test, and Hugo still processes items from those years. Any idea why?

I also tried post[\/]2003 as a way to handle both Win/OSX in one match, but that failed :slightly_smiling:

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So I went with

.*200X.*

and it seems to work well, and I’m assuming will work fine back on OSX.

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Just as an FYI, the forum system here is stripping out some of my characters. It should be “period asterix” not just period in the example above.

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The patterns are regular expressions (regex). In regex, “” starts an escape sequence. Something like this should work: post[/\\][0-9]{4}. Translated, that matches “post” followed by “” or “/”, which is then followed by 4 digits.

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Thanks.