unglobbable

A glob pattern that lets node-glob emit an error

const glob = require('glob');
const unglobbable = require('unglobbable');
 
glob('safe/glob/pattern', err => {
  !!err; //=> false
});
 
glob(unglobbable, err => {
  !!err; //=> true
});

Useful for writing the failure test case. Example

Installation

Use npm.

npm install unglobbable

API

const unglobbable = require('unglobbable');

unglobbable

Value: string of the following:

Platform	String
Darwin	/private/var/root/*
Linux	/proc/*/*/*/*
Windows	/Documents and Settings/*
Others	/**

// On macOS
const glob = require('glob');
const unglobbable = require('unglobbable');
 
unglobbable; //=> '/private/var/root/*'
 
glob(unglobbable, err => {
  err.message; //=> 'EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/private/var/root''
});

License

ISC License © 2018 Shinnosuke Watanabe