Monitor File Contents Step

Specify a new-line-separated list of paths to the files to monitor, relative to the current working directory.

Pattern Matching Rules:

* matches zero or more characters

? matches one character

** matches zero or more directories

Examples:

*.java - matches .java, x.java, and FooBar.java

?.java - matches x.java, A.java

**/*.txt - matches all txt files recursively

**/CVS/* - matches all files in CVS directories anywhere in the directory tree

org/apache/jakarta/** - matches all files in the org/apache/jakarta directory tree

org/apache/**/CVS/* - matches all files in CVS directories anywhere in the in the directory tree under org/apache/

**/test/** - matches all files that have a test element in their path, including test as a filename

\d A digit: [0-9]

\D A non-digit: [^0-9]

\s A whitespace character: [\t\n\x0B\f\r]

\S A non-whitespace character: [^\s]

\w A word character: [a-zA-Z_0-9]

\W A non-word character: [^\w]

\\ The backslash character

[abc] a, b, or c

[^abc] Any character except a, b, or c (negation)

[a-zA-Z] a through z or A through Z, inclusive (range)

^ The beginning of a line

$ The end of a line

X? X, once or not at all

X* X, zero or more times

X+ X, one or more times

X{n} X, exactly n times

X{n,} X, at least n times

X{n,m} X, at least n but not more than m times

Examples:

a*b - matches b, aaaaab

a+b - matches ab, aaaaab

a.c - matches aac, aSc, a5c

a.?c - matches ac, abc

[A-Z]am - matches Jam, Sam

\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{2} - matches 123-56-78

Select this to start monitoring from the ends of the files. One example use for this is when there is a growing log file and the token would appear later in the file.