How do you run models in a path?

[jon-rtr]

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The --models flag accepts one or more arguments. Each argument can be one of:
3. a path hierarchy to a models directory

Examples:
dbt run --models path.to.my.models # runs all models in a specific directory
dbt run --models path.to.models.* # select all models in path/to/models

For example, my project has a structure like:

• models/base/
• models/blue/
• models/green/
• models/red/

And I only want to build the models in the models/red/ folder. How would I do that?

Am I misunderstanding the documentation?

[drew]

Hey @jon-rtr - I totally agree that this syntax is confusing! In this example, you could run the models in models/red/ with:

dbt run --models red.*

The .* is actually superfluous in most cases, but I like to add it to make things explicit.

The --models flag works this way to support selecting:

1. models by name
2. directories
3. packages

Since it supports selecting three different types of things, the syntax is necessarily a little weird. Hope this helps!