**/* patten in Ant?

[Judy Collins]

Hi there,
Can anybody tell me what does **/* pattern mean in Apache Ant?
I am just not sure what does it mean. Any help is greatly appreciated

  
 1      <copy todir="${class.root}" >
 2        <fileset dir="${source.root}" >
 3          <include name="**/*.properties"/>
 4          <include name="**/*.hbm.xml"/>
 5        </fileset>
 6      </copy>
 7    </target>

Thanks for your help

[Steven Bell]

In your case it means include any file with the pattern *.properties in this directory or any subdirectory. Same with the hbm.xml.

[Judy Collins]

Thanks a lot for your help.

Here is what I found

The pattern '**/*.hbm.xml' means any file ending in .hbm.xml, within the specified directory, or any subdirectory, however deeply nested.