How to deny access to a file by pattern in NGINX?

Question

Nginx

Now it is written in the site config like this

location ~* wp-config.php {
      deny all;
    }

How to deny access to all files starting with "wp-config"?
Because bots access such addresses
/wp-config.php.new
~ /wp-config.php.!
/wp-config.php.private
/wp-config.php.private
etc.

Answer 1

location ~ /wp-config {
    deny all;
}