micromatch

Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A faster alternative to minimatch (10-45x faster on avg), with all the features you're used to using in your Grunt and gulp tasks.

• 10-45x faster than [minimatch], (see benchmarks)
• Better support for the Bash 4.3 specification, and less buggy
• Works with a single glob or an array of glob patterns
• Extensive unit tests (approx. 1,300 tests)

Features

Supports

All the mainstream glob features you're used to using in your gulp and Grunt tasks:

• Brace Expansion (foo/bar-{1..5}.md, one/{two,three}/four.md)
• Typical glob patterns (**/*, a/b/*.js, etc)
• Logical OR (foo/bar/(abc|xyz).js)
• Regex character classes (foo/bar/baz-[1-5].js)
• POSIX bracket expressions (**/[[:alpha:][:digit:]]/)
• extglobs (**/+(x|y), !(a|b), etc)

You can combine these to create whatever matching patterns you need.

Install with npm

npm i micromatch --save

Usage

var mm = require('micromatch');
mm(array, patterns);

Examples

mm(['a.js', 'b.md', 'c.txt'], '*.{js,txt}');
//=> ['a.js', 'c.txt']

Multiple patterns

Multiple patterns can also be passed:

mm(['a.md', 'b.js', 'c.txt', 'd.json'], ['*.md', '*.txt']);
//=> ['a.md', 'c.txt']

Negation patterns:

mm(['a.js', 'b.md', 'c.txt'], '!*.{js,txt}');
//=> ['b.md']

mm(['a.md', 'b.js', 'c.txt', 'd.json'], ['*.*', '!*.{js,txt}']);
//=> ['a.md', 'd.json']

Methods

var mm = require('micromatch');

.isMatch

mm.isMatch(filepath, globPattern);

Returns true if a file path matches the given glob pattern.

Example

mm.isMatch('.verb.md', '*.md');
//=> false

mm.isMatch('.verb.md', '*.md', {dot: true});
//=> true

.contains

Returns true if any part of a file path match the given glob pattern. Think of this is "has path" versus "is path".

Example

.isMatch() would return false for both of the following:

mm.contains('a/b/c', 'a/b');
//=> true

mm.contains('a/b/c', 'a/*');
//=> true

.matcher

Returns a function for matching using the supplied pattern. e.g. create your own "matcher". The advantage of this method is that the pattern can be compiled outside of a loop.

Pattern

Can be any of the following:

• glob/string
• regex
• function

Example

var isMatch = mm.matcher('*.md');
var files = [];

['a.md', 'b.txt', 'c.md'].forEach(function(fp) {
  if (isMatch(fp)) {
    files.push(fp);
  }
});

.filter

Returns a function for filtering files that match the given pattern.

Example

Both of the following signatures work:

var fn = mm.filter('*.md', {dot: true});
['a.js', 'b.txt', 'c.md', '.verb.md'].filter(fn);
//=> ['c.md', '.verb.md']

.expand

Returns an object with a regex-compatible string and tokens.

mm.expand('*.js');

// when `track` is enabled (for debugging), the `history` array is used
// to record each mutation to the glob pattern as it's converted to regex
{ options: { track: false, dot: undefined, makeRe: true, negated: false },
  pattern: '(.*\\/|^)bar\\/(?:(?!(?:^|\\/)\\.).)*?',
  history: [],
  tokens:
   { path:
      { whole: '**/bar/**',
        dirname: '**/bar/',
        filename: '**',
        basename: '**',
        extname: '',
        ext: '' },
     is:
      { glob: true,
        negated: false,
        globstar: true,
        dotfile: false,
        dotdir: false },
     match: {},
     original: '**/bar/**',
     pattern: '**/bar/**',
     base: '' } }

.makeRe

Create a regular expression for matching file paths based on the given pattern:

mm.makeRe('*.js');
//=> /^(?:(?!\.)(?=.)[^/]*?\.js)$/

Options

All options should work the same way as [minimatch].

options.dot

Match dotfiles.

Type: {Boolean}

Default: false

options.matchBase

Allow glob patterns without slashes to match a file path based on its basename.

Type: {Boolean}

Default: false

Example

mm(['a/b.js', 'a/c.md'], '*.js');
//=> []

mm(['a/b.js', 'a/c.md'], '*.js', {matchBase: true});
//=> ['a/b.js']

options.nobraces

Don't expand braces in glob patterns.

Type: {Boolean}

Default: false

options.nocase

Use a case-insensitive regex for matching files.

Type: {Boolean}

Default: false

options.nonull

If true, when no matches are found the actual (array-ified) glob pattern is returned instead of an empty array.

Type: {Boolean}

Default: false

options.cache

Cache the platform (e.g. win32) to prevent this from being looked up for every fil.

Type: {Boolean}

Default: true

Other features

Micromatch also supports the following.

Extended globbing

Extended globbing as described by the bash man page:

| pattern | regex equivalent | description | | --- | --- | | ?(pattern-list) | (...|...)? | Matches zero or one occurrence of the given patterns | | *(pattern-list) | (...|...)* | Matches zero or more occurrences of the given patterns | | +(pattern-list) | (...|...)+ | Matches one or more occurrences of the given patterns | | @(pattern-list) | (...|...) ^* | Matches one of the given patterns | | !(pattern-list) | N/A | Matches anything except one of the given patterns |

^* @ isn't a RegEx character.

Brace Expansion

In simple cases, brace expansion appears to work the same way as the logical OR operator. For example, (a|b) will achieve the same result as {a,b}.

Here are some powerful features unique to brace expansion (versus character classes):

• range expansion: a{1..3}b/*.js expands to: ['a1b/*.js', 'a2b/*.js', 'a3b/*.js']
• nesting: a{c,{d,e}}b/*.js expands to: ['acb/*.js', 'adb/*.js', 'aeb/*.js']

Learn about brace expansion, or visit braces to ask questions and create an issue related to brace-expansion, or to see the full range of features and options related to brace expansion.

Regex character classes

With the exception of brace expansion ({a,b}, {1..5}, etc), most of the special characters convert directly to regex, so you can expect them to follow the same rules and produce the same results as regex.

For example, given the list: ['a.js', 'b.js', 'c.js', 'd.js', 'E.js']:

• [ac].js: matches both a and c, returning ['a.js', 'c.js']
• [b-d].js: matches from b to d, returning ['b.js', 'c.js', 'd.js']
• [b-d].js: matches from b to d, returning ['b.js', 'c.js', 'd.js']
• a/[A-Z].js: matches and uppercase letter, returning ['a/E.md']

Learn about regex character classes.

Regex groups

Given ['a.js', 'b.js', 'c.js', 'd.js', 'E.js']:

• (a|c).js: would match either a or c, returning ['a.js', 'c.js']
• (b|d).js: would match either b or d, returning ['b.js', 'd.js']
• (b|[A-Z]).js: would match either b or an uppercase letter, returning ['b.js', 'E.js']

As with regex, parenthese can be nested, so patterns like ((a|b)|c)/b will work. But it might be easier to achieve your goal using brace expansion.

Benchmarks

Run the benchmarks:

npm run benchmark

As of February 26, 2015:

#1: basename-braces.js
  micromatch.js x 25,776 ops/sec ±0.68% (98 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 3,335 ops/sec ±1.09% (98 runs sampled)

#2: basename.js
  micromatch.js x 24,676 ops/sec ±0.56% (95 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 4,908 ops/sec ±0.95% (97 runs sampled)

#3: braces-no-glob.js
  micromatch.js x 473,492 ops/sec ±0.64% (96 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 27,705 ops/sec ±1.78% (91 runs sampled)

#4: braces.js
  micromatch.js x 42,522 ops/sec ±0.63% (97 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 3,995 ops/sec ±1.36% (95 runs sampled)

#5: immediate.js
  micromatch.js x 24,048 ops/sec ±0.72% (95 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 4,786 ops/sec ±1.40% (95 runs sampled)

#6: large.js
  micromatch.js x 773 ops/sec ±0.62% (98 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 27.52 ops/sec ±0.66% (49 runs sampled)

#7: long.js
  micromatch.js x 7,388 ops/sec ±0.64% (99 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 608 ops/sec ±0.95% (95 runs sampled)

#8: mid.js
  micromatch.js x 41,193 ops/sec ±0.74% (99 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 2,724 ops/sec ±1.09% (97 runs sampled)

#9: multi-patterns.js
  micromatch.js x 12,909 ops/sec ±0.71% (93 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 2,798 ops/sec ±1.45% (95 runs sampled)

#10: no-glob.js
  micromatch.js x 430,787 ops/sec ±0.66% (98 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 47,222 ops/sec ±2.19% (86 runs sampled)

#11: range.js
  micromatch.js x 474,561 ops/sec ±0.69% (97 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 10,819 ops/sec ±2.20% (88 runs sampled)

#12: shallow.js
  micromatch.js x 239,098 ops/sec ±0.67% (96 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 27,782 ops/sec ±2.12% (92 runs sampled)

#13: short.js
  micromatch.js x 707,905 ops/sec ±0.97% (97 runs sampled)
  minimatch.js x 52,171 ops/sec ±2.45% (84 runs sampled)

Run tests

Install dev dependencies

npm i -d && npm test

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue

Please be sure to run the benchmarks before/after any code changes to judge the impact before you do a PR. thanks!

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the license

This file was generated by verb-cli on February 26, 2015.