Mercurial file patterns

I wanted to add all the scripts in a directory tree to the local Mercurial repository. I was going to do something like this:

> find . -name \*.sh | xargs hg add

Which is nice enough (find and xargs go well together), but you can also do it using just Mercurial using patterns. e.g.

> hg add 'glob:**.sh'

The two most useful patterns (for me) are:

• '*' match any text in the current directory only
• '**' match anything in the entire tree

The patterns are much richer than this though; see hg help patterns for more on what's available (including regexes).