Googlebot Wildcard

[payday]

Hi,

will my robots.txt that look like this:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: *.js
Disallow: *.css

prevent Google to spider all *.js and *.css files on my server? Also these ones that are in subdirectories? Is there any difference to:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*.js
Disallow: /*.css

Will this prevent Google to spider only all *.js and *.css files in my root directory?

[DaveAtIFG]

The only place wildcards are supported in the robots exclusion protocol [robotstxt.org] is in the User-agent variable.

"Disallow: *.js" will prevent the file named "*.js" being spidered.

"Disallow: /*.js" will prevent the directory named "*.js" being spidered.

<added>I nearly forgot! Welcome to WebmasterWorld, payday! :)</added>

[payday]

Thanks for reply, but I think googlebot support wildcards. What is the right syntax, only for googlebot, to disallow indexing all *.js files on my server, also in all subdirectorys? Is this possible?

[DaveAtIFG]

GoogleGuy posted this:
[webmasterworld.com...]
Google says this:
[google.com...]

Maybe else someone has more detailed info?

[Mohamed_E]

From another item [google.com] in the Google FAQ:

Googlebot also understands some extensions to the robots.txt standard. Disallow patterns may include * to match any sequence of characters, and patterns may end in $ to indicate the end of a name. For example, to prevent Googlebot from crawling files that end in .gif, you may use the following robots.txt entry:
[pre]

User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*.gif$[/pre]

In a previous post someone stated that Googlebot is the only robot to accept these extensions, so using them will not keep other bots out of these pages.