2009/10/16  <cross...@apache.org>:
> Author: crossley
> Date: Fri Oct 16 10:11:32 2009
> New Revision: 825833
>
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=825833&view=rev
> Log:
> More patterns.
> Issue: FOR-1180
>
> Modified:
>    forrest/trunk/etc/rat-avoid.txt
>
> Modified: forrest/trunk/etc/rat-avoid.txt
> URL: 
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/forrest/trunk/etc/rat-avoid.txt?rev=825833&r1=825832&r2=825833&view=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- forrest/trunk/etc/rat-avoid.txt (original)
> +++ forrest/trunk/etc/rat-avoid.txt Fri Oct 16 10:11:32 2009
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  **/jtidy-config.txt
>  **/mime.types
>  **/note.txt
> +**/notes.txt
>  **/uris.txt

I'm pretty sure you can just do things like **/*.txt

Ross