This was because I wasn't quoting the pattern (others I've used haven't
needed quotes). *'**/README.md'* worked.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 11:45 AM Max Ghenis <mghe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using jupyter-book <http://jupyterbook.org>'s exclude_patterns config
> field (inherited from Sphinx) and am looking to exclude several files named
> README.md in different folders. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do
> that, and it's not one of the documented patterns
> <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-exclude_patterns>.
> Here's what I've tried - any help appreciated. Thanks -- Max
>
>    1. **README* *didn't exclude
>    2. *README* didn't exclude
>    3. ***README.md** *threw error "expected alphabetic or numeric
>    character"
>    4. ***README.md *threw error (same)
>    5. ***/README.md *threw error (same)
>    6. ***README.md* *threw error (same)
>    7. **/README.md *threw error (same)
>
> Filed in https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/issues/753 but
> coming to the source here instead.
>
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