glob-parent
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Package description
The glob-parent npm package is used to extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string, which is useful for determining the directory that a glob is intended to match against, for ensuring consistent behavior in file watching and globbing.
Extracting non-magic parent path from a glob string
This feature allows you to get the directory path without any glob patterns, which is useful for file operations that require a base directory.
const globParent = require('glob-parent');
console.log(globParent('path/to/*.js')); // Output: 'path/to'Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that can convert glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. It is similar to glob-parent in that it deals with glob patterns, but it focuses more on matching patterns rather than extracting the parent path.
Glob is a package that provides a way to match file paths against specified glob patterns. It is more feature-rich than glob-parent, offering the ability to find all matching files based on a glob pattern, whereas glob-parent simply extracts the base path from a glob string.
node-glob-base is similar to glob-parent in that it extracts the base path from a glob string. However, it also provides additional information such as the glob pattern itself and the full glob string, offering a bit more context than glob-parent.
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Javascript module to extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string.
npm install glob-parent --save
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)
See release notes page on GitHub
FAQs
Extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string.
The npm package glob-parent receives a total of 74,316,682 weekly downloads. As such, glob-parent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that glob-parent demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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