| glob-parent [](https://travis-ci.org/es128/glob-parent) [](https://coveralls.io/r/es128/glob-parent?branch=master) | 
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 | Javascript module to extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string. | 
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 | [](https://nodei.co/npm/glob-parent/) | 
 | [](https://nodei.co/npm-dl/glob-parent/) | 
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 | Usage | 
 | ----- | 
 | ```sh | 
 | npm install glob-parent --save | 
 | ``` | 
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 | **Examples** | 
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 | ```js | 
 | var globParent = require('glob-parent'); | 
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 | 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' | 
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 | // 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) | 
 | ``` | 
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 | ## Escaping | 
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 | The following characters have special significance in glob patterns and must be escaped if you want them to be treated as regular path characters: | 
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 | - `?` (question mark) | 
 | - `*` (star) | 
 | - `|` (pipe) | 
 | - `(` (opening parenthesis) | 
 | - `)` (closing parenthesis) | 
 | - `{` (opening curly brace) | 
 | - `}` (closing curly brace) | 
 | - `[` (opening bracket) | 
 | - `]` (closing bracket) | 
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 | **Example** | 
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 | ```js | 
 | globParent('foo/[bar]/') // 'foo' | 
 | globParent('foo/\\[bar]/') // 'foo/[bar]' | 
 | ``` | 
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 | ## Limitations | 
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 | #### Braces & Brackets | 
 | 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]. | 
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 | #### Windows | 
 | 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). | 
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 | This cannot be used in conjunction with escape characters. | 
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 | ```js | 
 | // BAD | 
 | globParent('C:\\Program Files \\(x86\\)\\*.ext') // 'C:/Program Files /(x86/)' | 
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 | // GOOD | 
 | globParent('C:/Program Files\\(x86\\)/*.ext') // 'C:/Program Files (x86)' | 
 | ``` | 
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 | If you are using escape characters for a pattern without path parts (i.e. | 
 | relative to `cwd`), prefix with `./` to avoid confusing glob-parent. | 
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 | ```js | 
 | // BAD | 
 | globParent('foo \\[bar]') // 'foo ' | 
 | globParent('foo \\[bar]*') // 'foo ' | 
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 | // GOOD | 
 | globParent('./foo \\[bar]') // 'foo [bar]' | 
 | globParent('./foo \\[bar]*') // '.' | 
 | ``` | 
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 | Change Log | 
 | ---------- | 
 | [See release notes page on GitHub](https://github.com/es128/glob-parent/releases) | 
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 | License | 
 | ------- | 
 | [ISC](https://raw.github.com/es128/glob-parent/master/LICENSE) | 
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 | [expand-braces]: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-braces | 
 | [expand-brackets]: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-brackets |