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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'); |
| |
| 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) |
| ``` |
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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 |