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