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https://github.com/terkelg/tiny-glob

Super tiny and ~350% faster alternative to node-glob
https://github.com/terkelg/tiny-glob

expansion filesystem glob glob-pattern globbing pattern-matching patterns wildcard

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Tiny Glob

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Tiny and extremely fast library to match files and folders using glob patterns.


"Globs" is the common name for a specific type of pattern used to match files and folders. It's the patterns you type when you do stuff like `ls *.js` in your shell or put `src/*` in a `.gitignore` file. When used to match filenames, it's sometimes called a "wildcard".

## Install

```
npm install tiny-glob
```

## Core Features

- 🔥 **extremely fast:** ~350% faster than [node-glob](https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob) and ~230% faster than [fast-glob](https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob)
- 💪 **powerful:** supports advanced globbing patterns (`ExtGlob`)
- 📦 **tiny**: only ~45 LOC with 2 small dependencies
- 👫 **friendly**: simple and easy to use api
- 🎭 **cross-platform**: supports both unix and windows

## Usage

```js
const glob = require('tiny-glob');

(async function(){
let files = await glob('src/*/*.{js,md}');
// => [ ... ] array of matching files
})();
```

## API

### glob(str, options)

Type: `function`

Returns: `Array`

Return array of matching files and folders
This function is `async` and returns a promise.

#### str

Type: `String`

The glob pattern to match against.
> **OBS**: Please only use forward-slashes in glob expressions. Even on [windows](#windows)

#### options.cwd

Type: `String`

Default: `'.'`

Change default working directory.

#### options.dot

Type: `Boolean`

Default: `false`

Allow patterns to match filenames or directories that begin with a period (`.`).

#### options.absolute

Type: `Boolean`

Default: `false`

Return matches as absolute paths.

#### options.filesOnly

Type: `Boolean`

Default: `false`

Skip directories and return matched files only.

#### options.flush

Type: `Boolean`

Default: `false`

Flush the internal cache object.

## Windows

Though Windows may use `/`, `\`, or `\\` as path separators, you can **only** use forward-slashes (`/`) when specifying glob expressions. Any back-slashes (`\`) will be interpreted as escape characters instead of path separators.

This is common across many glob-based modules; see [`node-glob`](https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob#windows) for corroboration.

## Benchmarks

```
glob x 13,405 ops/sec ±1.80% (85 runs sampled)
fast-glob x 25,745 ops/sec ±2.76% (59 runs sampled)
tiny-glob x 102,658 ops/sec ±0.79% (91 runs sampled)
Fastest is tiny-glob
┌───────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────┬────────────────┐
│ Name │ Mean time │ Ops/sec │ Diff │
├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────┤
│ glob │ 0.00007459990597268128 │ 13,404.843 │ N/A │
├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────┤
│ fast-glob │ 0.000038842529587611705 │ 25,744.976 │ 92.06% faster │
├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────┤
│ tiny-glob │ 0.00000974110141018254 │ 102,657.796 │ 298.75% faster │
└───────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────┴────────────────┘
```

## Advanced Globbing

Learn more about advanced globbing

- [Greg's Wiki](https://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob)
- [Bash Extended Globbing](https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-extended-globbing)

## License

MIT © [Terkel Gjervig](https://terkel.com)