dirname & idirname

Since version 3.1

The dirname term allows matching on the parent directory structure for a given file.

For the examples below, given a file with a wholename (the relative path from the project root) of foo/bar/baz, the dirname portion is foo/bar.

The following two terms will match any file whose dirname is either exactly a match for foo/bar or is any child directory of foo/bar. The first of these two is a shortcut for the second:

  ["dirname", "foo/bar"]
  ["dirname", "foo/bar", ["depth", "ge", 0]]

The second of those terms uses a relational expression based on the depth of the file within the specified dirname. A file is considered to have depth == 0 if it is contained directly within the specified dirname. It has depth == 1 if it is contained in a direct child directory of the specified dirname, depth == 2 if it is contained in a grand-child directory and so on.

The relational expression accepts the same relational operators as described in the size term.

If you wanted to match only files that were directly in the foo/bar dir:

  ["dirname", "foo/bar", ["depth", "eq", 0]]

If you wanted to match only files that were in a grand-child or deeper:

  ["dirname", "foo/bar", ["depth", "ge", 2]]

idirname is the case insensitive version of dirname. If the watched root is detected as a case insensitive fileystem, dirname is equivalent to idirname.