globby

User-friendly glob matching

Based on glob, but adds a bunch of useful features and a nicer API.

Features

Promise API
Supports multiple patterns
Supports negated patterns → ['foo*', '!foobar']

Install

$ npm install --save globby

Usage

├── unicorn
├── cake
└── rainbow

const globby = require('globby');

globby(['*', '!cake']).then(paths => {
	console.log(paths);
	//=> ['unicorn', 'rainbow']
});

API

globby(patterns, [options])

Returns a Promise<Array> of matching paths.

globby.sync(patterns, [options])

Returns an Array of matching paths.

globby.generateGlobTasks(patterns, [options])

Returns an Array<Object> in the format { pattern: string, opts: Object }, which can be passed as arguments to node-glob. This is useful for other globbing-related packages.

Note that you should avoid running the same tasks multiple times as they contain a file system cache. Instead, run this method each time to ensure file system changes are taken into consideration.

globby.hasMagic(patterns, [options])

Returns a boolean of whether there are any special glob characters in the patterns.

Note that the options affect the results. If noext: true is set, then +(a|b) will not be considered a magic pattern. If the pattern has a brace expansion, like a/{b/c,x/y}, then that is considered magical, unless nobrace: true is set.

patterns

Type: string Array

See supported minimatch patterns.

options

Type: Object

See the node-glob options.

Globbing patterns

Just a quick overview.

* matches any number of characters, but not /
? matches a single character, but not /
** matches any number of characters, including /, as long as it's the only thing in a path part
{} allows for a comma-separated list of "or" expressions
! at the beginning of a pattern will negate the match

Various patterns and expected matches.

multimatch - Match against a list instead of the filesystem
matcher - Simple wildcard matching
del - Delete files and directories
make-dir - Make a directory and its parents if needed

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