Javascript module to extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string.
npm install glob-parent --save
Examples
var globParent = require('glob-parent'); globParent('path/to/*.js'); // 'path/to' globParent('/root/path/to/*.js'); // '/root/path/to' globParent('/*.js'); // '/' globParent('*.js'); // '.' globParent('**/*.js'); // '.' globParent('path/{to,from}'); // 'path' globParent('path/!(to|from)'); // 'path' globParent('path/?(to|from)'); // 'path' globParent('path/+(to|from)'); // 'path' globParent('path/*(to|from)'); // 'path' globParent('path/@(to|from)'); // 'path' globParent('path/**/*'); // 'path' // if provided a non-glob path, returns the nearest dir globParent('path/foo/bar.js'); // 'path/foo' globParent('path/foo/'); // 'path/foo' globParent('path/foo'); // 'path' (see issue #3 for details)
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
globParent('foo/[bar]/') // 'foo' globParent('foo/\\[bar]/') // 'foo/[bar]'
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.
// BAD globParent('C:\\Program Files \\(x86\\)\\*.ext') // 'C:/Program Files /(x86/)' // GOOD globParent('C:/Program Files\\(x86\\)/*.ext') // 'C:/Program Files (x86)'
If you are using escape characters for a pattern without path parts (i.e. relative to cwd), prefix with ./ to avoid confusing glob-parent.
// BAD globParent('foo \\[bar]') // 'foo ' globParent('foo \\[bar]*') // 'foo ' // GOOD globParent('./foo \\[bar]') // 'foo [bar]' globParent('./foo \\[bar]*') // '.'
See release notes page on GitHub