GlobWalk

A cross platform crate for recursively walking over paths matching a Glob pattern.

Based on both walkdir &️ globset (❤), this crate inherits many goodies from both, such as limiting search depth and amount of open file descriptors.

Licensed under MIT.

Why not glob

• The glob crate does not support having {a,b} in patterns.
• globwalk can match several glob-patterns at the same time.
• glob searches for files in the current working directory, whereas globwalk starts at a specified base-dir.

Documentation

docs.rs/globwalk

Usage

To use this crate, add globwalk as a dependency to your project's Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
globwalk = "0.1"

Example

The following piece of code recursively find all mp3 and FLAC files:

extern crate globwalk;
use globwalk::GlobWalker;

fn search_and_destroy() {
    for track in GlobWalker::new("**/*.{mp3,flac}").unwrap() {
        if let Ok(track) = track {
            // Destroy satanic rhythms
            std::fs::remove_file(track.path());
        } 
    }
}

Example: Tweak walk options

extern crate globwalk;
use globwalk::GlobWalker;

fn search_and_destroy() {
    let walker = GlobWalker::new("**/*.{mp3,flac}")
                    .unwrap()
                    .max_depth(4)
                    .follow_links(true)
                    .into_iter()
                    .filter_map(Result::ok);
                    
    for track in walker {
        // Destroy symbolic satanic rhythms, but do not stray far.
        std::fs::remove_file(track.path()); 
    }
}