100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing library for C, Zig, and Rust that is faster and supports all the modern globbing formats (more than libc and rust glob crate)

It supports all the formats like * and {a,b} expansion as long as have a very efficient syscall and SIMD optimization for faster processing

• gary_0

  today at 7:25 AM

  Thanks for sharing. Just curious, is there any way to perform globbing over a list of path-like strings instead of only directly on the filesystem?

  • jzwinck

    today at 10:09 AM

    In case someone doesn't know, the standard function for that is called fnmatch:

    https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fnmatch.3.html

Was this vibe coded? Readme has typos and somehow reads "fast and loose".

• kryptiskt

  today at 9:18 AM

  I thought typos was a signifier for human-created these days, because an LLM is unlikely to land on something that is not a word.

Nice licence, I would've probably used this a few years ago on a project had I known it existed.

Since when `{...}' syntax is a glob pattern? What does `{a,b}/c' produce when there is no directory named `a'?

• hidroto

  today at 8:06 AM

  would it not just produce 'b/c'? assuming 'b/c' is an existent file path

  what else could you justify it doing?

  • thayne

    today at 8:09 AM

    The behavior of bash would be to produce "a/c" and "b/c", even if both files don't exist

  • oguz-ismail2

    today at 8:16 AM

    What sibling comment says. Bash does suppress nonexistent products when the pattern includes a glob metacharacter and `shopt -s nullglob' is in effect, but I didn't see a flag or anything to achieve that in the project README.