Electron-packager: I am unclear how to pass an array of regexes to `--ignore`.

[louh]

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Please describe your issue:

I am unclear how to pass an array of regexes to --ignore.

This works - when I just want to ignore one file: electron-packager --ignore=browserify-cache.json

These do not, when I want to ignore more than one:

electron-packager --ignore=browserify-cache.json,embedded.js # -> makes one ignore string
electron-packager --ignore=[browserify-cache.json,embedded.js]  # -> outputs "no matches found: --ignore=[browserify-cache.json,embedded.js]"
electron-packager --ignore="[browserify-cache.json,embedded.js]" # -> makes one ignore string
electron-packager --ignore=/browserify-cache.json/,/embedded.js/   # -> makes one ignore string
electron-packager --ignore=[/browserify-cache.json/,/embedded.js/] # ->" outputs no matches found: --ignore=[/browserify-cache.json/,/embedded.js/]"

I am at a loss. It seems to me that there is an "obvious" convention for writing arrays in a command line option which is why the precise syntax is not documented or has no examples, but this is an aspect of UNIX command line I am completely unfamiliar with. Please help?

[malept]

You can do one of two things:

• specify --ignore more than once: --ignore='browserify-cache\.json' --ignore='embedded\.js'
• Use regular expression syntax: --ignore='browserify-cache\.json|embedded\.js'

It should be noted in the CLI help that you can specify certain parameters multiple times.

[louh]

Got it - thanks!