VSTS Release - Copy Files from subfolder

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I have a "Release" that I intend to use to publish to a remote share.

I have created a Copy Files task which works. However my build artifacts are all below two subfolders [UI] Build/drop. I want to copy the contents of the drop folder rather than the entire thing. Unfortunately I only seem to be able to copy the entire thing!

Task (copies all files and folders):

  • Source Folder: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/
  • Contents: **
  • Target Folder: \\myshare\test

So I tried to only copy the contents (with support from this article) of UIBuild/drop but nothing gets copied in any of these cases:

  • Changing Source Folder to $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/[UI] Build/Drop.
  • Keeping Source Folder as it was but changing Contents to [UI] Build/drop/**
  • Keeping Source Folder as it was but changing Contents to **/[UI] Build/drop/**
  • Keeping Source Folder as it was but changing Contents to **/drop/**

What am I doing wrong?

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1 Answers

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After some digging I realised its because there was a square bracket in my artifact. Once I changed my artifact to not use the square bracket everything started working.

Im not sure if its related but this post on minimatch within gulp helped give me the nod