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Javascript module to extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string.
Examples
The following characters have special significance in glob patterns and must be escaped if you want them to be treated as regular path characters:
?
(question mark)*
(star)|
(pipe)(
(opening parenthesis))
(closing parenthesis){
(opening curly brace)}
(closing curly brace)[
(opening bracket)]
(closing bracket)Example
This library attempts a quick and imperfect method of determining which path parts have glob magic without fully parsing/lexing the pattern. There are some advanced use cases that can trip it up, such as nested braces where the outer pair is escaped and the inner one contains a path separator. If you find yourself in the unlikely circumstance of being affected by this or need to ensure higher-fidelity glob handling in your library, it is recommended that you pre-process your input with expand-braces and/or expand-brackets.
Backslashes are not valid path separators for globs. If a path with backslashes is provided anyway, for simple cases, glob-parent will replace the path separator for you and return the non-glob parent path (now with forward-slashes, which are still valid as Windows path separators).
This cannot be used in conjunction with escape characters.
If you are using escape characters for a pattern without path parts (i.e. relative to cwd
), prefix with ./
to avoid confusing glob-parent.
See release notes page on GitHub