Crate glob

Support for matching file paths against Unix shell style patterns.

The glob and glob_with functions allow querying the filesystem for all files that match a particular pattern (similar to the libc glob function). The methods on the Pattern type provide functionality for checking if individual paths match a particular pattern (similar to the libc fnmatch function).

For consistency across platforms, and for Windows support, this module is implemented entirely in Rust rather than deferring to the libc glob/fnmatch functions.

Examples

To print all jpg files in /media/ and all of its subdirectories.

use glob::glob;

for entry in glob("/media/**/*.jpg").expect("Failed to read glob pattern") {
    match entry {
        Ok(path) => println!("{:?}", path.display()),
        Err(e) => println!("{:?}", e),
    }
}

To print all files containing the letter “a”, case insensitive, in a local directory relative to the current working directory. This ignores errors instead of printing them.

use glob::glob_with;
use glob::MatchOptions;

let options = MatchOptions {
    case_sensitive: false,
    require_literal_separator: false,
    require_literal_leading_dot: false,
};
for entry in glob_with("local/*a*", options).unwrap() {
    if let Ok(path) = entry {
        println!("{:?}", path.display())
    }
}

Structs

GlobError

A glob iteration error.

MatchOptions

Configuration options to modify the behaviour of Pattern::matches_with(..).

Paths

An iterator that yields Paths from the filesystem that match a particular pattern.

Pattern

A compiled Unix shell style pattern.

PatternError

A pattern parsing error.

Functions

glob

Return an iterator that produces all the Paths that match the given pattern using default match options, which may be absolute or relative to the current working directory.

glob_with

Return an iterator that produces all the Paths that match the given pattern using the specified match options, which may be absolute or relative to the current working directory.

Type Definitions

GlobResult

An alias for a glob iteration result.