** Doesn't work recursively

[GuyHadas]

app.zip

Getting script to find all the html files is not doable with ** in path.

[juanjoDiaz]

Any chance of fixing this soon??

Just to elaborate a bit more... Let's say we have a project as:

|-- src
    | -- css
        | -- ...
    | -- html
        | -- module1
            | -- ...
        | -- module2
            | -- ...
        | -- index.html
    | -- js
        | -- ...

If I do htmllint src/html/**/*.html, only src/html/index.html will be linted. On the other hand, If I do htmllint src/html/**/**/*.html, only the contents of src/html/module1 and src/html/module2 will be linted

[Potherca]

Until this is resolved, a variation of the following might work for you:

htmllint $(find . -name '*.html')

[mlochbaum]

FINALLY had a look at this. It seems like the only problem is that the shell is catching these patterns and expanding them incorrectly before they get to htmllint. To avoid this enclose in double quotes: htmllint "src/html/**/*.html". This is awkward, but other commands like find have similar problems so it's nothing unheard of.

Can someone confirm that enclosing in quotes works correctly?

[compeek]

FINALLY had a look at this. It seems like the only problem is that the shell is catching these patterns and expanding them incorrectly before they get to htmllint. To avoid this enclose in double quotes: htmllint "src/html/**/*.html". This is awkward, but other commands like find have similar problems so it's nothing unheard of.

Can someone confirm that enclosing in quotes works correctly?

@mlochbaum I realize this is very old, but thank you for the suggestion. It works for me.