Extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string.
```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) ```
globParent(maybeGlobString, [options])Takes a string and returns the part of the path before the glob begins. Be aware of Escaping rules and Limitations below.
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{
// Disables the automatic conversion of slashes for Windows
flipBackslashes: true
}
The following characters have special significance in glob patterns and must be escaped if you want them to be treated as regular path characters:
? (question mark) unless used as a path segment alone* (asterisk)| (pipe)( (opening parenthesis)) (closing parenthesis){ (opening curly brace)} (closing curly brace)[ (opening bracket)] (closing bracket)Example
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globParent('foo/[bar]/') // 'foo'
globParent('foo/\\[bar]/') // 'foo/[bar]'
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.
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).
This cannot be used in conjunction with escape characters.
```js // BAD globParent('C:\Program Files \(x86\)\*.ext') // 'C:/Program Files /(x86/)'
// GOOD globParent('C:/Program Files\(x86\)/*.ext') // 'C:/Program Files (x86)' ```
If you are using escape characters for a pattern without path parts (i.e.
relative to cwd), prefix with ./ to avoid confusing glob-parent.
```js // BAD globParent('foo \[bar]') // 'foo ' globParent('foo \[bar]*') // 'foo '
// GOOD globParent('./foo \[bar]') // 'foo [bar]' globParent('./foo \[bar]*') // '.' ```
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