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In an extglob, !(.min) matches anything that isn't exactly .min (as long it doesn't contain a /), and that includes the empty string!!!

So, when you test foo/bar/baz/test.min.js against the extglob foo/bar/**/*!(.min).js you get a hit because:

• foo/bar/ matches foo/bar/
• **/ matches baz/
• * matches test.min
• !(.min) matches the empty string
• .js matches .js

If the meaning that you want from !(.min) is in fact "anything that doesn't end with .min" then, in spoken language, that is the negation of "anything that ends with .min", which translates to *.min in glob terms; so you just have to use !(*.min) to fix your issue:

foo/bar/**/!(*.min).js

In an extglob, !(.min) matches anything that isn't exactly .min (as long it doesn't contain a /), and that includes the empty string!!!

So, when you test foo/bar/baz/test.min.js against the extglob foo/bar/**/*!(.min).js you get a hit because:

• foo/bar/ matches foo/bar/
• **/ matches baz/
• * matches test.min
• !(.min) matches the empty string
• .js matches .js

If the meaning that you want from !(.min) is in fact "anything that doesn't end with .min" then, in spoken language, that is the negation of "anything that ends with .min" (which translates to *.min in glob terms); so you just have to use !(*.min) to fix your issue:

foo/bar/**/!(*.min).js

In an extglob, !(.min) matches everything that isn't exactly .min, as long it doesn't contain a /; that includes the empty string!!

So, when you test foo/bar/baz/test.min.js against the glob foo/bar/**/*!(.min).js you get a hit because:

• foo/bar/ matches foo/bar/
• **/ matches bar/
• * matches test.min
• !(.min) matches the empty string
• .js matches .js

If the meaning that you want from !(.min) is in fact "anything that doesn't end with .min", then in spoken language that is the negation of "anything that ends with .min" (which is *.min in glob terms). So can use !(*.min) to fix your issue:

foo/bar/**/!(*.min).js

In an extglob, !(.min) matches anything that isn't exactly .min (as long it doesn't contain a /), and that includes the empty string!!!

So, when you test foo/bar/baz/test.min.js against the extglob foo/bar/**/*!(.min).js you get a hit because:

• foo/bar/ matches foo/bar/
• **/ matches baz/
• * matches test.min
• !(.min) matches the empty string
• .js matches .js

If the meaning that you want from !(.min) is in fact "anything that doesn't end with .min" then, in spoken language, that is the negation of "anything that ends with .min", which translates to *.min in glob terms; so you just have to use !(*.min) to fix your issue:

foo/bar/**/!(*.min).js

In an extglob, !(.min) can match everything but .min (+ anything that contains a /); that includes the empty string!

When you test foo/bar/baz/test.min.js with the glob foo/bar/**/*!(.min).js you get a hit because:

• foo/bar/ matches foo/bar/
• **/ matches bar/
• * matches test.min
• !(.min) matches the empty string
• .js matches .js

If the meaning that you want from !(.min) is in fact "anything that doesn't end with .min", which is the negation of *.min, then you can use !(*.min) to fix the issue:

foo/bar/**/!(*.min).js

In an extglob, !(.min) matches everything that isn't exactly .min, as long it doesn't contain a /; that includes the empty string!!

So, when you test foo/bar/baz/test.min.js against the glob foo/bar/**/*!(.min).js you get a hit because:

• foo/bar/ matches foo/bar/
• **/ matches bar/
• * matches test.min
• !(.min) matches the empty string
• .js matches .js

If the meaning that you want from !(.min) is in fact "anything that doesn't end with .min", then in spoken language that is the negation of "anything that ends with .min" (which is *.min in glob terms). So can use !(*.min) to fix your issue:

foo/bar/**/!(*.min).js